260 Quotes by Billy Bob Thornton

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

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

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

I always wanted to play a lawyer.

Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.

I tend to like to move on. I don't sit around and dwell on things much.

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