My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama....
BILL PAXTON It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about love...
BILL PAXTON It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y...
BILL PAXTON My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because t...
BILL PAXTON I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
BILL PAXTON Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew ...
BILL PAXTON When I first read the Eddie Lowery connection in the script, I thought this scenario was created bec...
BILL PAXTON Well, directing myself meant there was one less star I had to deal with! Really, it was great. It wa...
BILL PAXTON He walked up, took the yardage chart from his pocket. Examined it, didn't even look back as the cadd...
BILL PAXTON People interpret things through their owns lens, just the way they do the Bible. You can find justif...
BILL PAXTON You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate...
BILL PAXTON I want people to re-evaluate me. My dream would be to make films like Clint Eastwood did... You have...
BILL PAXTON When you and I and the average Joe on the street think about polygamy, it's usually what we've read ...
BILL PAXTON When you and I and the average Joe on the street think about polygamy, it's usually what we've read ...
BILL PAXTON When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio lev...
BILL PAXTON I support the troops. This is tough time right now. I think a lot of people in our industry are afra...
BILL PAXTON I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!
BILL PAXTON You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very f...
BILL PAXTON I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of s...
BILL PAXTON In our game, it's your vanity that keeps you in shape. I've got a little gym set up, and I r...
BILL PAXTON It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, ...
BILL PAXTON It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual ab...
BILL PAXTON I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
BILL PAXTON You could say I have quite a nice-guy image as an actor and I wanted to do something new, something ...
BILL PAXTON God, I admire Steve Martin.
BILL PAXTON I've had a great career up until now, and I'm trying to kind of take the reigns. Unfortunately, I've...
BILL PAXTON I don't care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in...
BILL PAXTON We are not playing these people with parody or satire. We are playing these people dead earnest. I'm...
BILL PAXTON It's going to be a slaughterhouse out there. But I feel pretty good. I feel I got two hits on my han...
BILL PAXTON The Greatest Game Ever Played
BILL PAXTON I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of s...
BILL PAXTON I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.
BILL PAXTON I found that kind of concentration inherently dramatic.
BILL PAXTON I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my c...
BILL PAXTON It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappo...
BILL PAXTON What's been nice is that I've been able to direct from a very idealistic place. I've nev...
BILL PAXTON I've had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother'...
BILL PAXTON I've had a career that is kind of under the radar, but it sure is varied, and I've been so b...
BILL PAXTON In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.
BILL PAXTON When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio...
BILL PAXTON On the Internet, on IMDB, they've got that my middle name as Archibald. I don't have a middl...
BILL PAXTON There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although g...
BILL PAXTON Since I was a small boy, I was always around the game. I don't play golf much myself, but I love...
BILL PAXTON It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
BILL PAXTON I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and...
BILL PAXTON I think I got an Instamatic camera when I was 8 years old, and ever since then, I've liked to re...
BILL PAXTON I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.
BILL PAXTON The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over...
PAXTON HOOD Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.
PERRY PAXTON Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.
PERRY PAXTON Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
SARA PAXTON I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard ...
SARA PAXTON Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevai...
JEREMY PAXTON Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will...
PAXTON HOOD Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will ...
PAXTON HOOD The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over...
PAXTON HOOD The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote ove...
PAXTON HOOD Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will ...
PAXTON HOOD The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.
SARA PAXTON I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home an...
SARA PAXTON Sharks are really serious animals. They've been around longer than dinosaurs. They're basica...
SARA PAXTON People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don'...
SARA PAXTON I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with pe...
SARA PAXTON I definitely try and wash my face twice a day, and I never go to bed with my makeup on. I mostly jus...
SARA PAXTON My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywo...
SARA PAXTON We understand from what resources we have out there that we provide them better support in those sma...
DON PAXTON We were thinking he had just an average day, but he ran a 17:36. That's great. That's where you want...
MATT PAXTON Marcus has never beaten his brother before. He beat him today.
MATT PAXTON Cable is not really growing at all, ... It's seeing roughly 15 to 20 percent growth in terms of upgr...
MIKE PAXTON The cable companies have been talking about getting into the wireless market for about three years a...
MICHAEL PAXTON Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you kno...
BILL MAHER No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri...
BILL MURRAY President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a ...
BILL O'REILLY Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out ...
BILL VIOLA When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSON Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
BILL WATTERSON God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that...
BILL WATTERSON There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
BILL WATTERSON We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves an...
BILL WATTERSON From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's differ...
BILL WATTERSON The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't wa...
BILL WATTERSON The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a...
BILL WATTERSON Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSON Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
BILL WATTERSON If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
BILL WATTERSON It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
BILL COPELAND Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.
BILL RANCIC Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i...
BILL GATES The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w...
BILL GATES My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ...
BILL GATES Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ...
BILL GATES The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
BILL GATES The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
BILL GATES People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision...
BILL GATES In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
BILL GATES In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES I think there will be PCs at every price point.
BILL GATES I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu...
BILL GATES The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
BILL GATES Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ...
BILL GATES At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&...
BILL GATES I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl...
BILL GATES Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t...
BILL GATES To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k...
BILL GATES I'm a geek.
BILL GATES I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
BILL GATES If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a...
BILL GATES Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles yo...
BILL GOLDBERG As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
BILL GATES Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and...
BILL GATES Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
BILL GATES If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
BILL GATES Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
BILL GATES We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
BILL GATES In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his ho...
BILL GATES The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one o...
BILL GATES This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...
BILL GATES The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p...
BILL GATES Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
BILL GATES Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
BILL GATES For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made ...
BILL GATES In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...
BILL GATES Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
BILL GATES People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f...
BILL GATES By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
BILL GATES Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
BILL GATES Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
BILL GATES I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to...
BILL GATES Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
BILL GATES Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is...
BILL PASCRELL I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or e...
BILL BRYSON Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals ...
BILL FLORES Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
BILL COSBY I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
BILL WATTERSON There's a lot of things I believe in this world. I believe in God, I believe in the United State...
BILL ENGVALL People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what&...
BILL COSBY If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them an...
BILL COSBY I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not ...
BILL COSBY There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.
BILL COSBY When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.
BILL COSBY If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what ...
BILL COSBY Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
BILL COSBY Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituari...
BILL COSBY Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of yo...
BILL COSBY Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
BILL COSBY Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: e...
BILL COSBY Gray hair is God's graffiti.
BILL COSBY A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
BILL COSBY If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. I...
BILL COSBY By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America d...
BILL COSBY The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
BILL COSBY Anytime I get down to Miami, it's a wonderful thing.
BILL GOLDBERG I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture ...
BILL ATKINSON As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories f...
BILL GOLDBERG Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
BILL MURRAY If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you'...
BILL HICKS I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, b...
BILL BURR There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
BILL GATES The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
BILL COPELAND I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave th...
BILL COSBY A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.
BILL TOOMEY Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disrega...
BILL FLORES One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are...
BILL MURRAY Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't transla...
BILL EVANS I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years ol...
BILL MUMY I just became one with my browser software.
BILL GRIFFITH No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no ma...
BILL PARCELLS I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is...
BILL GATES People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once the...
BILL BRYSON The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence brief...
BILL MAHER William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was...
BILL DEDMAN The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Re...
BILL ALEXANDER The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports ...
BILL ALEXANDER Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses th...
BILL WALTON Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, h...
BILL WALTON The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people t...
BILL WALTON Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
BILL WHEELER If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
BILL WATTERSON