45 Quotes by Powers Boothe

I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.

I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out how they would react to situations, what they eat, think, and feel.

There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers.

I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn't conceive of why I'd want to stop to do 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'

That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave.

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

If you're down, it's curse; if you're up, it's a blessing.

When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.

Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.'