Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and musician...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth4 August 1955
CityHot Springs, AR
CountryUnited States of America
believe artist ideas
My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.
dad years funeral
At my dad's funeral I didn't cry when my dad died. I did it years later when I forgave him, which I've totally forgiven him and I loved my dad.
idols tv-shows creating
We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.
stars party games
So we are headed for a time when there won't be anything but movies that are essentially made like video games, and actors will become obsolete, and then the big stars will be people who live in Brentwood or wherever it is, and they have a show called, I don't know, "Pool Parties of Brentwood" or something like that.
couple ideas wrong-person
I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you're going to know that and you're going to be really panicked.
doors casting directors
I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.
stars guy here-and-there
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.
dad hug my-dad
My dad didn't hug me every day and say he loved me and anything like that.
teenager book old-testament
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.
kids church pay
A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.
mom encouragement sides
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.
book writing years
I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.
stars fun rock-and-roll
I worked as a roadie in the rock and roll business which was great fun. Very little money, very little food and the whole thing about the roadie's lifestyle is great because all the groupies have to go through the roadies to get to the rock stars. It's not necessarily true.
stars thinking actors
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.