Quotes from Billy Bob Thornton

People have made sure of that, that you can't shock anybody anymore. It's not just because of movies and TV. It's because of what's happening in the world.

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

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.

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.

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.

Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.

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

Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.

I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy you'd want to hire to do Star Trek.

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

I have type AB- blood, which is the rarest blood type. It's less than 1 percent of the whole population of the world, and it means that you don't have as many digestive enzymes.

I always have a guitar or ukulele in the trailer, and I write songs. That keeps me in an artistic mind-set.

The ones that work out really and ones that become something to the audience, those are the most important people.

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

I'm a vegan who cheats - that's what I call myself.

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

You can't knock a place where you realized your dreams.

My mom is such a big supporter of mine. She still is, and always was. So I got the sort of encouragement from that side of the family.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.