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Sometimes we don't want the b...

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.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

They always say 'Is there goi...

They always say 'Is there going to be a sequel to Bad Santa?' and you know, I mean, a long time ago they would talk about, you know, we're going to do a sequel to that but it was never serious. And they said 'Would you do it?' and I said out of all the movies I've done, that was a lot of fun, and maybe I would do a sequel if it ever came up and it made sense, but I said I don't think that's ever going to happen.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

When I was a teenager, I read...

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

People think you have to be t...

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.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

I think I fully commit myself...

I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe it's just not there, in other words on the page. You know, I mean your job is you need to play the governor and that's what you do. I mean I'm not going to stay up all night if I'm playing a functional role. And I've played a couple of functional roles. And so I'm not going to do anything other, look he's a functional guy. He says hey mister, you forgot your hat.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

Somewhere along the line we s...

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

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

You want to know the hardest ...

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart?
What?
I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

When I was coming up in the '...

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.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

I think maybe I was instrumen...

I think maybe I was instrumental in taking the stereotype out of the Southern actor is some ways. I would hope my legacy would be as a serious actor who told the truth and did parts based on the quality of part and not necessarily the money.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

I know that I loved music bef...

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

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

I actually am a phobic twitch...

I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

People always like stories ab...

People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

I think my stuff's kind of ob...

I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

Normally you're 21 years old ...

Normally you're 21 years old and you look like Tom Cruise and you do a couple underwear commercials first and then you're a movie star. That didn't happen for me. So it was all quite overwhelming.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

My mom was a psychic. And the...

My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

I mean the most important thi...

I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

I'm not a TV junkie outside o...

I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

I always say if you're going ...

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.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

When you're a director, for t...

When you're a director, for two years or at least a year and a half, that's what your life is. So if you're gonna do it, you gotta be ready to do it and it has to be something you care about. I've found something that I do care about.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

When I was coming up, if you ...

When I was coming up, if you were on a TV show, that meant something was wrong with your career. Now it means something's right with your career.

Billy Bob Thornton 141 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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