Growing up incredibly impoverished and fighting his way into Hollywood by tooth and nail, Billy Bob Thornton is one of those ...

Billy Bob Thornton boasts a long list of ... However, one project stands out above the rest: Sling Blade sees Thornton serve ...

Billy Bob Thornton reflects on achieving success in his 40s with 1996's Oscar-winning Sling Blade Nigel Smith is the Senior Movies News Editor for PEOPLE. He is an experienced culture editor and ...

There's no limit on which phobias people can have, but Billy Bob Thornton has one of the most unusual, and it was weaponised against him.

Renowned director Billy Wilder once told him he was "too ugly" to be a star and suggested he write his own projects instead. Thornton took ... and starring in "Sling Blade," which won you the ...

A local reporter comes to talk to him, and listens in horror about his life leading up to the crime. This is the short film that inspired the full-length "Sling Blade".

In the new filmBilly Bob Thornton stars as Charles Farmer ... And then coming to California and making my own movie was a dream. Sling Blade [his breakthrough film] is kinda my rocket, I guess.