Billy Bob Thornton Quotes

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• I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.
• I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.
• Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
• I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.
• Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.
• Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
• Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad…
• Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It's not about winning. It's about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your…
• Marketing is the devil.
• I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.
• Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
• People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm…
• I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.
• I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.
• If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We…
• We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous…
• If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong.
• When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was…
• I always wished there was somebody like the Coen Brothers and they appeared. And so yeah, my favorite role that I've ever done was in…
• When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up…

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