Billy Bob Thornton Quotes

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

You just have to play the character.

To me, it always comes down to character and script and then director. If a character belongs to me, it's mine. We belong to each other, and I feel a fierce need to tell that story, and it just so happens that a lot of these characters have been residing in pretty dark worlds.

I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm an interpreter. I like getting a script, seeing a character and thinking, "Oh, wow, I know what I can do with that."

It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to people who watch it.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.