Billy Bob Thornton

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.