Billy Bob Thornton Quotes

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

When you've had a chance to live some experiences then you can really write, and not having lived that much when I was young I didn't have much to write about. Now having seen life, the songs seem to come easier.

I think I subconsciously knew you needed life experience to direct, and the best films are directed by people who have really lived, with exceptions like Orson Welles, who just burst out of the gate. There are prodigies like that, but for me, personally, I thought I needed life experience.

Now I got kids and I'm more wise now. Life means more to me than having fun. I'm more calm, more wise, and more cautious.

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.

I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I can't explain it.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

When I had a kid and I went through my drama and situation, I respected my father more because it kinda made me understand what he went through with me.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we don't really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, we're finally starting to learn.