Billy Bob Thornton

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

“Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.”

“Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.”

“I think television's amazing, and I'm going to do more of it. I love it. I think it's a great place to be, but I'm still going to keep doing movies too.”

“Marketing is the devil.”

“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.”

“My wheelhouse is intense characters who have a certain sympathetic streak and also a sense of humor.”

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

“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.”

“I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?”

“If you're in scenes with a guy you know really well in a comedy, you tend to crack each other up too much.”

“Baby boomers don't go out as much, they aren't interacting with each other and they would rather stay home and watch TV. That's the audience for a guy like me, unless I'm doing 'Bad Santa.'”

“I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.”

“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.”

“Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.”

“There aren't any people aligned with me passionately.”

“Pushing Tin,' I went to air traffic control school in Toronto for that. Passed with flying colors, by the way. If I ever become an air traffic controller and I'm the guy in charge of your plane, you're in good hands.”

“I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.”

“I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career, except for when I've worked with the Coen brothers.”

“If you love somebody let them know every day.”