Timothy Bottoms Quotes

United States, Actor
August 30, 1951

Timothy James Bottoms is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for playing the lead in Johnny Got His Gun, Sonny Crawford in The Last Picture Show where he and his fellow co-stars, Cybill Shepherd and Jeff Bridges, rose to fame; as James Hart, the first-year law student who battles with Prof. Kingsfield, in the film adaptation The Paper Chase, and for playing President George W. Bush multiple times, including on the sitcom That's My Bush! and in the comedy film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course and the docudrama DC 9/11: Time of Crisis.

Also known as Producer

The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.

Timothy Bottoms
- Serious
- Film
- Stuff
The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have.

Timothy Bottoms
- Fun
- Comedy
- Should

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.

Timothy Bottoms
A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

Timothy Bottoms
- Film
- Features
We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do.

Timothy Bottoms
- Remember
- Brother
- Angry