Billy Bob Thornton (Actor)

"I like outcasts of society. I've felt like one myself. Still do. I'm a fairly normal person, really, contrary to what they write in the papers. Fairly normal. But I kind of don't fit in." - Thornton to the Sydney Morning Herald, Feb. 7, 2002

"I'm looking forward to having a little one around. We're planning to give Maddox a life there [Cambodia] too. He'll know both places as home." - Thorton on adopting with wife Jolie to People magazine, July 2002

"I'm one of those people who just attract weirdos. I always seem to end up, like, in the middle of the desert with some biker, you know, and he's threatening to tie me up or something. I've known a lot of strange people." - Thornton in Time Out New York, Nov. 21-28, 1996

"Now there's a call I never used to get. That was my manager asking me what hotel I want to stay in when we're on location. They used to say, 'You're staying at the Holiday Inn, and that's it.' Now they give me a list of the four or five best hotels in the area, and let me pick." - Thornton to Detour magazine, March 1998

"One of my favorite things I ever did," he says of 'The Man Who Wasn't There.' "And I gotta tell you something: If I had to say exactly who I am based on the movies I've done, that's him, that son of a b*tch right there. But the character I identify with on a soul level more than anything I've ever done was the character in 'A Simple Plan.' It's that f*cking scene where I talk to [Hank, played by Bill Paxton] before he kills me. I can watch that and not even recognize it's a movie or an actor. And I can break it down to one line: when I look at him and say, 'Hank, I'm tired.' That's the most honest line I've done in my lifetime. 'I'm tired.' And I am. I mean, I've gone so far beyond where I should have played out. I'm so f*cking tired. So f*cking tired, but I'm gonna get a second wind." - Thornton quoted in GQ magazine, April 2004

"There's a real common misconception that I'm like a big deal. I'm really not. I'm a big deal only because of people like Roger Ebert, Jeffrey Lyons, Joel Siegel, critics like that. That's the only reason anybody ever hears about me." - Thornton quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald, Feb. 7, 2002

"When a studio treats me badly, I remember it. I have no patience for studio executives who treat me like an idiot or tell me how my characters should talk." - Thornton quoted in The Los Angeles Times, Nov. 24, 1996

Thornton admitted to becoming anorexic when he lost 60 pounds for his role in "Pushing Tin."

Thornton never mentions fourth wife Jolie by name, he does provide some seemingly expert advice on marriage, suggesting that first-timers, "go into it with the idea that you want it to last, but don't put pressure on yourself to try to achieve perfection every day, because I think that's when you get into trouble." In summation, says Thornton, "those about to march down the aisle should be thinking, Like, yeah, I'm doing this forever, but don't let it freak you out." - from People magazine, Sept. 4, 2003

Thornton plays drums and provides vocals for the band The Boxmasters. The band has released three albums: The Boxmasters and the holiday album Christmas Cheer were both released in 2008 and their third album, Modbilly was released in 2009.

Thorton played in cover bands for Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top. He also worked as a roadie with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Johnny Paycheck, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears.