260 Quotes by Billy Bob Thornton

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

I love acting with all my heart and I love music with all my heart.

When people are bothering you constantly when you’re trying to do just a simple thing that humans do every day but they won’t let you do it without bugging you about it, that was a hard thing. Because I became a movie star overnight. From a working actor and working writer to a movie star.

I don’t have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

The only times you’ll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don’t go to see ones that aren’t mine because I don’t even like going to mine.

I’m kind of sad and happy all the time. Just kind of like feeling, you know, full of life and confident, and at the same time terrified. I’m all of those things at once.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don’t have our dreams, we have nothing.

I always say if you’re going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I’m not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there’s some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.

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