Billy Bob Thornton

The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.

— Billy Bob Thornton

One of the most important things for an actor is to know who you are.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I'm a vegan who cheats - that's what I call myself.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I love independent film so much, and that's kind of where I made my mark.

— Billy Bob Thornton

“If i knew my life would turn out this way, i would of killed myself a long time ago.”

— Billy Bob Thornton

You can't knock a place where you realized your dreams.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I love being an actor, doing it all. That's not exciting and controversial, but it's true.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit.

— Billy Bob Thornton

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of…

— Billy Bob Thornton

A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I always have a guitar or ukulele in the trailer, and I write songs. That keeps me in an artistic mind-set.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I've gone through my periods. I've read the Bible completely, all the way through twice. I did it once when I was…

— Billy Bob Thornton

You know, what's popular? Okay, vampires are very popular. Let me make my vampire movie. I'm not saying you can't make a…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Baby boomers don't go out as much, they aren't interacting with each other and they would rather stay home and watch TV.…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I think maybe I was instrumental in taking the stereotype out of the Southern actor is some ways. I would hope my…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Pushing Tin,' I went to air traffic control school in Toronto for that. Passed with flying colors, by the way. If I…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck,…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I don't see anything wrong with a cell phone. That's great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night;…

— Billy Bob Thornton

If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

— Billy Bob Thornton

These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Every character I play is me, always has been.

— Billy Bob Thornton

People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.

— Billy Bob Thornton

You know, some people can't get past their past, I guess. I certainly haven't.

— Billy Bob Thornton

My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star.

— Billy Bob Thornton

To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and…

— Billy Bob Thornton

You never know what an audience is going to think about something. The ones that the audience doesn't get, I tend to…

— Billy Bob Thornton

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.

— Billy Bob Thornton

My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.

— Billy Bob Thornton

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