Billy Bob Thornton Quotes

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

The lead of a film that wove around me, I played all the roles. I traveled the world; I loved life, pleasure. I adored to write, create.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

It's all about doing work, being creative and staying true to who you are and having fun. That's what us actors are all about.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

When I was younger, I was always willing to tell a joke and play out a scene. I would get sticks and pretend they were light sabers. I think it was just at a young age, I was so willing to jump up and perform a little play at the family picnic.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.

That's the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to go down. You get to play or experience an area of the world that - you know, I live a pretty simple life, I'm not much of an adventurer. I like my couch and my television. So when stuff comes up in the job, it's a good deal.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

I was always putting on plays for my family. Usually silly ones. I used my imagination a lot, and it was something that came naturally to me.

To portray something that you're really not, it's like a little escape, and I love to act and to be dramatic. I feel like the wrestling ring in WWE is the perfect platform to do that. It's totally acceptable.

The happiest that I remember myself was putting on plays and pretending to be other people.

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.

Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.