Top 35 Powers Boothe Quotes

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college – much less graduate school.

I’ve always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.

I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual.

We’re in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It’s a desperate, sad situation.

Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.

I’ve been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I’ve also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.

I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.

I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn’t conceive of why I’d want to stop to do ‘The Importance of Being Earnest.’

If I rob a gas station, I’m going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining.

Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work – with a raise. I can’t figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent.

Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker.

I was raised a Democrat, and now I’m an Independent.

I’ve always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.

I think I’m pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

I wanted to be in ‘The Emerald Forest.’ I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!

There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers.

There’s something about playing the baddies that people like. They’re more fun, and people tend to remember them, particularly if you do them well.

When I first came to Hollywood, I played about as many guys who save the day and get the girl as I played heavies. It’s just that heavies are more interesting and last in people’s minds.

I’ve had presidents in my lifetime – and I’m old enough to have seen several – that I really detested, but they’re still my president. I’ve had presidents that I’ve really liked.

The office of the presidency is what’s important, no matter who’s in it.

That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave.

If you’re down, it’s curse; if you’re up, it’s a blessing.

The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare.

I’ve got a family, and I love them, and I want them to have the best opportunities in the best country in the world, and I think we have to fight for it.

One thing that’s thematically consistent in ‘Sin City’ is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we’re singing the same song.

We all want to pretend that there isn’t evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren’t people trying to take us out and different things like that.

I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out how they would react to situations, what they eat, think, and feel.

You don’t do classics with a Texas accent.

When I’m out there, it’s just me. Nobody’s controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I’m my own man.

I’m not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.

Any of us can sort of say we would do any number of things to feed our children.

I come prepared when I come to work. Not just knowing the lines, but I think I know something about what I do.

I’ve auditioned five or six times. I’m not very good at it.