52 Quotes by Bill Paxton

It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.

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 more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I've had a career that is kind of under the radar, but it sure is varied, and I've been so blessed to be able to get paid to do something I love to do.

It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.

It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.

I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.