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

- Billy Bob Thornton

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

- Billy Bob Thornton

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

When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.

- Billy Bob Thornton

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

Marketing is the devil.

- Billy Bob Thornton

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

- Billy Bob Thornton

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

- Billy Bob Thornton

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

- Billy Bob Thornton

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

- Billy Bob Thornton

If you love somebody let them know every day.

- Billy Bob Thornton

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

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

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

- Billy Bob Thornton

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

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