260 Quotes by Billy Bob Thornton

There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to you and they would say, "Excuse me," and you'd barely hear them, and you'd turn around and you'd say, "Yeah, how you doing?" and they'd say, "I'm really sorry to bother you, but my aunt is a big fan of yours, and would you mind terribly if you'd just sign this paper," or whatever it is, and you're happy to do that, and the people are pretty nice about it.

My mom is such a big supporter of mine. She still is, and always was. So I got the sort of encouragement from that side of the family.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

Marketing is the devil.

I worked as a roadie in the rock and roll business which was great fun. Very little money, very little food and the whole thing about the roadie's lifestyle is great because all the groupies have to go through the roadies to get to the rock stars. It's not necessarily true.

We don't shoot in L.A. much anymore. You know, TV and movies, most everything's shot other places.

I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do, and I know that it's getting. I'll put it this way; David Lean would probably kill himself, you know, again if he knew that people were watching Lawrence of Arabia on a telephone.

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 wanted to be an actor.