Everything holds for a smooth quasiprojective $X$ as long as there exists a $\mathbb{C}^*$ action so that 

$$
\lim_{t \to 0} t \cdot x
$$

exists for every $x \in X$. This is guaranteed when $X$ is projective but holds more generally. The theory really depends on a local analysis of torus actions at fixed points so as long as you have enough fixed points for the limits to exist (and $X$ is smooth), everything holds. 

In the projective case, say you have a rank $r$ torus $T = \mathbb{C}^*$ acting on $X$, the one parameter subgroups $\mathbb{C}^* \cong T' \subset T$ form a lattice $N$ of rank $r$. For a projective $X$, any general enough $z \in N$ gives you a one parameter subgroup with the properties required to get a BB decomposition. Furthermore, scaling $z$ by a positive multiple does not change the decomposition. So you get a cone decomposition of $N \otimes_\mathbb{Z} \mathbb{R}$ that determine your BB decomposition. 

As you vary within the interior of a top dimensional cone, the induced BB decomposition stays the same, and then when you cross the faces between the top dimensional cones (which correspond to degenerate choices of one parameter subgroup that do not give you enough independent conditions for the fixed points of $T'$ to be the same as those of $T$) you change the decomposition. Of course within each cone we need to pick a point that is scaled large enough. 

So in the quasiprojective case, the difference is that now you have to stay within certain top dimensional cones where the limit above always exists, while the other regions of $N \otimes_\mathbb{Z} \mathbb{R}$ correspond to one parameter subgroups whose limit would be outside of the variety, say in an appropriate projective compactification. 

As an example consider $\operatorname{Hilb}^n(\mathbb{C}^2)$ which I will denote $H^n$ for convenience. $(\mathbb{C}^*)^2 = T$ acts on $\mathbb{C}^2$ in the obvious way and thus on $H^n$. The points of $H^n$ are ideals $I$ in $\mathbb{C}[x,y]$ so that $\dim_\mathbb{C}\mathbb{C}[x,y]/I = n$. The torus fixed points of this action correspond to the monomial ideals. If you pick a subtorus $(t^p,t^q)$ with $p,q > 0$, this gives a monomial order $w$ on $\mathbb{C}[x,y]$ and

$$
\lim_{t \to 0} (t^p,t^q)\cdot I = in_w(I)
$$

the initial ideal with respect to this ordering, which for general orderings is always a monomial ideal in $H^n$ and so gives a BB decomposition. The special orderings where the initial ideal is not always a monomial ideal are the faces of the cones. However, if we pick $p,q < 0$, then this limit can be an ideal supported at infinity in $\mathbb{P}^2$ and so we do not get a BB decomposition of $H^n$. 

See also this MO question: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/93229/cell-decomposition-for-a-variety-not-necessarily-complete.