" I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week. "
~ MOVIELINE { August 1995 }
" I see myself much more so as an actor. Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livlihood. I was an activist long before I even entertained the possiblity of being an actor. "
~ HUB HEAVEN INTERVIEW {October 1997 }
" I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Thos two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships. "
~ HUB HEAVEN INTERVIEW { 0ctober 1997 }
" I've been involved with the Creative Coalition since shortly after the founding by ( actor ) Ron Sliver and ( actress ) Susan Sarandon and ( actor ) Christopher Reeve. I love to really roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty on any level when it comes to these sorts of issues, ( i.e. gun control, freedom of speech ) on a grass roots level or a clerical level. I love to educate myself and others and help raise awareness on important issues. I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op."
~ HUB HEAVEN INTERVIEW { October 1997 }
( William on getting his start in activism ) " No, it was around the dinner table. It was largely inspired by the values instilled in us by our parents. My father was kind of a local pillar of the community, a high school teacher and football coach. He was always very politically knowledgeable because he was a social studies teacher. But in terms of his activism, it was more social and charitable in nature, rather than political. "
~ HUB HEAVEN INTERVIEW {October 1997 }
" I'm fascinated by each individual story. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill? And this is what I wanted to know about Tom. How could this have happened? "
~ Billy on real Tom Martinez, the character in which he portrays in the Showtime original movie, Brotherhood of Murder. { TV Guide Article }
