260 Quotes by Billy Bob Thornton

If you’re 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that’s great. If you’re 78 and you’re doing it, something’s wrong.

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we’re the biggest weirdos on the block.

I don’t see anything wrong with a cell phone. That’s great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night; it works better than digging in your pocket for a quarter and looking for a payphone eight miles down the road.

When I was coming up in the ’80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.

I’m more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you’re not sure if it’s a video game or a movie. You have to wait till the end of it to see, oh, I see, those actors are in it, so that one’s a movie. Oftentimes, it’s based on a video game.

After you’ve done 60-something movies, you’re always looking for something different.

You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I’m probably gonna do this one.

I’m not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I’m going to know it better than someone else.