Billy Bob Thornton

“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.'”

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

“I'm a vegan who cheats - that's what I call myself.”

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

“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.”

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

“I've been accused, many times, as a writer/director, of my pace being too leisurely and too long.”

“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...”

“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 pl...”

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

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

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