260 Quotes by Billy Bob Thornton

I don’t know how to type so I handwrite everything.

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 happy.

When you’re a kid, somebody’s mid-forties, you think they’re an old man. Then you grow up and it’s like, I was a kid.

A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can’t blame them, because they’re still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations.

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

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

I’ve never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What’s wrong with that?

I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you’re going to know that and you’re going to be really panicked.

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