Bill Paxton famous quotes

04-12-2025

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
-- Bill Paxton

#Levels #Parody #Filmmaker
Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.
-- Bill Paxton

#Fate #Destiny #Discipline
People interpret things through their owns lens, just the way they do the Bible. You can find justification for just about everything in the Bible. I think man has got a great ego when it comes to his God, whatever that is. It just seems to me that someone who wants to take on God's punishment, it just seems a huge egoism to think that he should appoint himself to take care of God's punishments.
-- Bill Paxton

#Bible #Men #Thinking
Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.
-- Bill Paxton

#Mind #Vampire #Shoulders
It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
-- Bill Paxton

#People #Naked #Hundred
Stop your grinnin and drop your linen
-- Bill Paxton

#Linen
You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.
-- Bill Paxton

#Thinking #Water #Levels
It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
-- Bill Paxton

#Twists #Film #Very Popular
It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
-- Bill Paxton

#Expectations #Film #Disappointed
I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
-- Bill Paxton

#Men #Thinking #Apples
In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.
-- Bill Paxton

#Careers
I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!
-- Bill Paxton

#Age #Normal #Demented
I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
-- Bill Paxton

#Hate #Judging #Tests

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