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.
- Billy Bob Thornton Quote

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

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
- Billy Bob Thornton Quote

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.
- Billy Bob Thornton Quote

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.
- Billy Bob Thornton Quote (IGN, October 2004)

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.
- Billy Bob Thornton Quote

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.
- Billy Bob Thornton Quote

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?
- Billy Bob Thornton Quote

Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.
- Billy Bob Thornton Quote

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
- Billy Bob Thornton Quote

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.
- Billy Bob Thornton Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote (MoviesOnline)

They were on the set of Bad Santa but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, they've seen Armageddon, Bandits and Friday Night Lights. They have not seen Monster's Ball, nor will they ever, even when they're sixty [laughter]. I will leave it in my will that they can never see it. 
- Billy Bob Thornton Quote (Pop Entertainment, July 2005)

Well I loved Little League; so all the memories are pretty fond but I broke my thumb. That wasn't a lot of fun. I think probably the first time I pitched [I started out as a first baseman] and the first game I pitched in Little League, I struck out 10 batters. I had a curve ball a little early [laughs]. You're not really supposed to have one when you're 12, but I did, so I first game I struck out 10 batters. That's possibly my fondest memory. 
- Billy Bob Thornton Quote (Pop Entertainment, July 2005)