Billy Bob Thornton movie quotes

“If this guy's a dope dealer, then... like we're talking about, then that means we're like Robin Hood.”

Billy Bob Thornton - Jacob

“I'm blacker than you are. I got some slave in me, I can feel it.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Richard Jemmons

“OK gentleman, you're our warriors up there. God be with you. You're already heroes, just sit back and enjoy the ride.”

Billy Bob Thornton - Dan Truman

“- Vaughan Cunningham: Homosexual. I like men sexually.
- Karl: Not funny ha-ha, funny queer.
- Vaughan Cunningham: Well that's a very offensive way to put it.”
John Ritter - Vaughan Cunningham
Billy Bob Thornton - Karl Childers

“I learned to read some. I read the Bible quite a bit. I can't understand all of it, but I reckon I understand a good deal of it.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Karl Childers

“I went to see a woman who was supposed to have powers of communicating with those who had 'passed across' as she called it. She said that people who had passed across were picky about who they communicated with, not like most people you run into on this side. So you needed a guide, someone with a gift for talking to souls.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Ed Crane

“While you're in the maze, you go through willy nilly, turning where you think you have to turn; banging into the dead ends. One thing after another. But you get some distance on it, and all those twists and turns, why, they're the shape of your life. It's hard to explain. But seeing it whole gives you some peace.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Ed Crane

“I worked in a barbershop, but I never considered myself a barber. I stumbled into it. Or married into it, more precisely.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Ed Crane

“- Hank Grotowski: Let's get this over quick.
- Minister: Is there a passage you'd like me to read?
- Hank Grotowski: No, all I wanna hear is dirt hit that box.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Hank Grotowski
John Wilmot - Minister

“If you ever want to sleep at night, don't marry a beautiful girl.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Russell Bell

“He lives inside of his own heart. That's an awful big place to live in.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Karl Childers

“- Terry Collins: You're insane!
- Kate Wheeler: I'm unhappy! It's not the same thing.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Terry Collins
Cate Blanchett - Kate Wheeler

“- Jacob: Hank, dad killed himself, you know that?
- Hank: What? What are you talking about? Come on what are you talking about? He was drunk, he had a wreck.
- Jacob: On Jacksborough Road, that's like that ramp is where he went everyday. He don't go the wrong way over on a ramp like that. He'd been on that thing 8,000 times a year, you know. You...” (continue)(continue reading)
Billy Bob Thornton - Jacob
Bill Paxton - Hank

“Life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I just haven't played 'em right.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Ed Crane

“Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Karl Childers

“I wasn't the kind of guy to kill a guy, that I was the barber, for Christ's sake. I was just like them, an ordinary man. Guilty of living in a world that had no place for me. Guilty of wanting to be a dry cleaner, sure. But not of murder.”

Billy Bob Thornton - Ed Crane

“- Kate Wheeler: I'll make dinner.
- Terry Collins: I cook the dinners around here.
- Kate Wheeler: Sorry. Not familiar with the outlaw code.”
Cate Blanchett - Kate Wheeler
Billy Bob Thornton - Terry Collins

“- Hank: What about, uh... What was her name? Carrie Richards? She liked you even though you were a broke dick.
- Jacob: Oh, her. Yeah. That was a whole different deal. That was... her friends, they pitched in 100 bucks altogether and bet her that she wouldn't go steady with me for a month.”
Bill Paxton - Hank
Billy Bob Thornton - Jacob

“- Doyle Hargraves: What'cha doin' with that lawn mower blade Karl?
- Karl Childers: I aim to kill you with it.”
Dwight Yoakam - Doyle Hargraves
Billy Bob Thornton - Karl Childers