Billy Bob Thornton Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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.

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

For our anniversary, I had a certificate drawn up that states I can never leave Angelina for eternity. It has the seal of the great state of Louisiana on it. I signed it in my own blood with a paintbrush.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 love somebody let them know every day.

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

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

Marketing is the devil.

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.

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.

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

Trivia

He likes milkshakes.

He had a tattoo on his left arm of Angelina Jolie's name. He had it replaced by an angel that is saying "Peace."

The songs on his album Beautiful Door are: It's Just Me Restin' Your Soul In the Day Beautiful Door I Gotta Grow Up Hearts Like Mine Carnival Girl Always Countin' Pretty People I Can Tell You Hope for Glory Boys Is Gone

The songs on his album The Edge of the World are: Emily Everybody Lies Island Avenue The Desperate One Everybody's Talking Fast Hearts Baby Can I Hold You The Edge of the World God Pieces of a Man Pieces of a Man (Part Two) The Edge of the World (Reprise) Do God Wop Savior Midnight Train To the End of Time

Billy Bob suffers from aviophobia (fear of flying), as well as chromophobia (fear of bright colours).

Billy Bob wrote and appeared in: One False Move in 1992, A Family Thing, in 1996, The Gift in 2000, and Daddy and Them, in 2001.

Billy Bob has been a receptionist for an answering service, ballpoint pen saleman, hauled hay, operated a sawmill, and managed a Shakey's Pizza Parlor.

Billy Bob and then-wife Angelina Jolie exchanged vials of their own blood in vials, to wear around each other's necks.

Billy Bob released his first solo record, Private Radio in 2000, on Lost Highway Records.

Billy Bob and his girlfriend Connie Angland had a child together in 2004, a daughter named Bella.

Billy had one child with Melissa Lee Gatlin, a daughter named Amanda.

Billy Bob was married to Pietra Dawn Cherniak from 1993 until their divorce in 1997.

Billy Bob was married to Melissa Lee Gatlin from 1978 until their divorce in 1980.

Billy released his album On the Edge of the World on Sanctuary/BMG Records in 2003.

Billy released the book version of screenplay for Sling Blade in 1997.

Billy owns a penthouse in Paris.

Billy has stated that, of all the characters he has played, the one he enjoyed playing the most was Davy Crockett in The Alamo (2004).

Billy said in an interview on the Oprah Winfrey Show that he's phobic of antique furniture.

Billy said that he had to gain about 50 pounds for his role as the auto mechanic in U Turn (1997).

Billy's mother, a psychic, predicted he would work with Burt Reynolds. It came true when he did three episodes of CBS's Evening Shade in 1990.

Billy Bob admitted that he was genuinely intoxicated during the filming of Bad Santa.

Billy Bob is approximately 6' tall.

Billy was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1999 for A Simple Plan.

Billy Bob won an Academy Award in 1997 for his writing on Sling Blade. He was also nominated for the Best Actor award, but didn't win.