Billy Bob Thornton Quotes - Page 3

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• Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mind, Towers, Records

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• Directing is a big responsibility to take on. I think I'm only good at doing things I know very well. I don't direct movies because I get offered the new vampire movie or science fiction movie. I don't get offered those, anyway, but if I did, I would just tell 'em, "Look, I'm the wrong guy." I only do things about people and situations, and I do the ones that I think I'm the best guy for the job on, which is usually something I generate myself.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Jobs, Responsibility, Thinking

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• These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Records, These Days, Eclectic

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• I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Running, Play, Hair

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Heavy role in the movies that I've done that I have loved and fit my soul; A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, One False Move, Bad Santa even. I mean Bad Santa is a comedy, and it's a very dark comedy, and it's become like iconic, you know.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Moving, Mean, Dark

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Drama, People, Adults

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Novelists, Filmmaker

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Insecure, Humans

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Men, Years, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Moving, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Fun, Mean, Thinking

  "Billy Bob Thornton for 'The Astronaut Farmer'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. February 23, 2007.

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• 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

  Jobs, Couple, Mean

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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

  Careers, Actors, Goes On

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Years, Knowing, Scripts

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Night, Eight, Phones

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Sports, Stuff, Tvs

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Song, Writing, Hook

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

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Kids, Music Is, Knows

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• We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Theatre, Nine, Movie Theatre

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

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Character, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We don't shoot in L.A. much anymore. You know, TV and movies, most everything's shot other places.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Tvs, Shots, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Guy, Want, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  People, Southern, Novelists

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Now the idea in the movie world is to make things the same. And in the TV world, the idea is to do something different, so... that's why I'm here!

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Ideas, Tvs, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Different, Songwriting, Screenwriting

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