The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people.… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I've really dreamed of doing television. All of us do television, coming up. But when I was coming up, television was a… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it,… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays.… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Heavy role in the movies that I've done that I have loved and fit my soul; A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, One… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career, except for when I've worked with the Coen brothers. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you're… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
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