Bill Paxton Quotes

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• I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
• I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!
• In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.
• I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
• It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
• It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
• You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks…
• Stop your grinnin and drop your linen
• It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
• When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
• Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.
• People interpret things through their owns lens, just the way they do the Bible. You can find justification for just about everything in the Bible.…
• I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess…
• My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
• I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of…
• I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing…
• I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

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