Billy Bob Thornton Quotes

If i knew my life would turn out this way, i would of killed myself a long time ago.

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.

I was always inspired by Billy Bob Thornton and how he made Sling Blade, how he made and financed that movie based off of a short. I always feel like, if I’m going to sell something, I want to show a short. That would be my advice to people who want to pitch. Make it yourself and show it. Because it’s a visual creation. Show them. And, more than anything, you have to prove that you’re the only person that can make the show. Make people trust that you believe in it so much that you are the best and only person who can do it.

Even on an off day, Harpootlian was better than most lawyers on their best. He had prosecuted or defended more than fifty murder cases, honing a reputation as lovably gruff and mercurially brilliant. He was an attack dog in Democratic presidential primaries and in the state senate and loved nothing more than the gamesmanship afforded the man in the center of the ring, part of the reason why he’d stuck with the Murdaugh case even when his client ran short of money to pay him. He’d made no secret that in whatever movie was made from this case, he wanted to be played by Billy Bob Thornton.

Part of it was ignorance—the fact that I didn’t know any better—but whatever the case, I had belief in my ability.

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