Henry Thomas Quotations

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

It's really important to go back to where you come from.

If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore.

Even if I had a tuxedo I wouldn't wear it to school.

I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me.

I understood why films were made, and if they made a lot of money, they were successful. All of these things I knew. As a ten-year-old boy, I didn't really think a lot about finances or celebrity. I always viewed films as kind of what I imagined a summer camp to be like.

I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.

I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.

I think it's great when girls are artistic.

Many times you walk into a room and people have already made up their minds. But it's always good to have something great associated with you.

The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.

The one thing I've always done is to try not to overcomplicate anything.

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.

I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of tough. I can't deny ever capitalizing upon it but on the whole in my teens I was pretty virtuous.

We struggled from the perimeter, we struggled inside we struggled on the boards. We struggled every place tonight.

What he wants more than anything else is to be part of a championship team. It would have been the case with any of the teams. It was a tough decision. They all have an opportunity to win, but he just felt that the Spurs were the best fit for him.

The only conclusion one can draw while money was a factor, it wasn't the deciding factor for him. It didn't come down to the team that could pay him the most money.

She was just talking him down, talking him down.

Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.

I grew up there, and it seems like the best place to me - somewhere where you know everything. Where you know where all the roads go.

I can't say there was. Michael took his time and met with all the teams last week. He took the weekend to sort of sit back and evaluate everything. He narrowed it down and just decided San Antonio was the best fit for him.

He was attracted to the idea that he's going to be the face of the brand and financially they made it worthwhile enough that he was willing to forgo the opportunity to see what the market said after next season.

He had a tough time. They (the Suns) were in it to the end.

He had a good conversation. He has a tremendous amount of respect for the team. Obviously, they're one of the up-and-coming teams? He had a lot of good choices. He had to narrow that list down.

We talked about them all week. We knew we couldn't give them any room and we couldn't be late.

He's already done some positive things that are going to help put him in a positive light again. He wants to be involved in the community in Salt Lake City.

He's been coming around. He's had some good practices lately, and they're starting to carry over into the game. That's just what we need.

When they got the ball inside, they still threw it over the top. When you're 6-foot-6 and 6-7, you can do that.

I thought we had it. But they made their free throws.

I think there will be a lot of factors that will go into it, but having a chance to play for a championship is certainly going to be important.

Our players have a lot of confidence right now. We've been behind a lot, so they know that if they just play together, we can come back.

Michael wants to have an adequate amount of time to listen to what all the teams have to offer, and then have some time to reflect. I don't anticipate it dragging on very long.

We couldn't get anything going against their zone defense. It's been giving us trouble all year. Coach Bass did a good job keeping them in it. They handled our press well. They rebounded well.

We went with a bigger lineup in the third quarter because that usually helps us. But we missed free shots, and we missed free throws. And they made all of theirs.

We couldn't make anything. I'm surprised we were still in it the way we shot the ball.

When we raise these rates, people will use less. That's a goal we want to achieve.

The contract will make him the highest-paid athlete in the history of Converse. One of the things attractive about the Converse offer was, in addition to the financial aspect, he is going to be the face of this brand.

We shot really well. Usually when we make the shots on the perimeter, that brings them out and we can go inside.

We came back on them twice this year. We had them in a hole, but we knew they'd come back. We'd make a run, then they'd make a run. We just couldn't make that final push.

We had a couple of turnovers and some missed shots. When we get off to a bad start, we don't do very well.

We didn't have to in-bound the ball, but we did and got a turnover. Those three's late in the game really hurt us.

Brandon had a monster first half. He helped us get back in it.

At the end of the day, it's a way of taxing large corporations. Small businesses simply couldn't handle that type mandate, but perhaps it is does make more sense for large corporations. There's no easy solution to the nation's health care crisis and everyone is going to have to give some to craft a win-win outcome.

The substitutions weren't there. I didn't go back to them, and that was a bad call on my part. In the fourth quarter, our players just didn't have the legs because they had been out there for so long.

The money was one of the factors he looked at but in the end the most important thing was the opportunity to win a championship and to have a significant role in that. When it came down to those factors, the Spurs were the best fit.

This is such a tough district. We let two (district) games slip by us, but our guys never quit. I'm proud of them for never giving up, and we're still hanging in there.

There were points in time throughout these negotiations that neither one of us was necessarily confident a deal could get done. I knew the trend. Certainly we've seen some of the shoe companies go to the rap industry to endorse their products.

It's a big one. It's a home game and it's against the first-place team. We felt like we should have beaten them last time.

It was a tough call. He definitely wants to win a championship. That isn't to say the teams he didn't pick don't have the potential to win. He felt whatever decision the made it wouldn't be a bad decision.

It's the summer and he's got to go into training camp and play and learn the system. He's confident his play will take care of everything else.

It's like a monkey off our backs. Our kids play so hard and practice so hard every day, so now that we've finally won ... this is more for the kids than anything.

It's unprecedented. The ramifications could go well beyond this particular case.

It was not as easy of a decision as some expected it to be.

It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out.

It was a great game, but we had to fight back as usual. We had to play them like we played Plano West (on Tuesday) in the fourth quarter, but for the whole game. And that took away from us.

It was a dogfight all the way through. We made a late run and pulled it out in the end.

His defensive intensity and the way he pushes the ball up the floor fits Lewisville's style. We try to keep people back-pedaling, and he does a good job at that. His scoring is a plus. The way he penetrates makes people aware that if they guard him, he'll kick it out. If they don't, he'll go to the basket.

I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.

I can't stay in L.A. too long or it starts to grow on me in a bad way.

He's in the process of narrowing it down and focusing on what teams he'd like to go to. He's most interested in going to a situation where he has a chance to win a championship.

He brought us back in the fourth. We were trying to get him the ball (toward the end of the game) but we just couldn't.

He appeals to corporate America because he does have a clean-cut image. He has no tattoos. At the same time, the way he plays, he does appeal to the hip-hop generation.

He played like I saw him play in the summer league and the fall league. He was just relaxing and letting the game come to him.

He really stepped up. That was one of his better games. All of these guys who came off the bench really helped us.

He really stepped up. He's had two really good practices this week, and so has Jake (Griffin) and Billy (Canada). When the practice that hard, you like to see them carry that over into the game.

All the teams he was considering are great organizations with an opportunity to win a championship, which is very important at this stage in his career. With San Antonio, he felt he could come in and play a key role in trying to defend their championship.