If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.
Billy Bob ThorntonMan, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
Billy Bob ThorntonI grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.
Billy Bob Thornton