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

Marketing is the devil.

William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: 'I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.'

Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.