Bill Pullman Quotes

I always love challenges and doing something that I can't quite figure out.

Bill Pullman

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• What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Important
  • Best

• I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Death
  • Someone
  • Anybody

• In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • Time
  • Death
  • Stop

• I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Good
  • Team
  • Football

• People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

  

  Feist
  • Myself
  • First
  • Living

• I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Woman

• What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Up
  • Different
  • Literature

• What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • God
  • Man
  • Ever

• There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Money
  • Too Much
  • Seed

• When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Human
  • See
  • Glass

• People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Think
  • Pressure

• I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Christmas

• Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • War
  • Kind
  • Stupidity

• People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers - it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that's what we do. If people said, 'We want a 300 pound purple person,' the first industry to do it would be fashion.

  

  Kelly Cutrone
  • People
  • Money
  • Society

• Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Small
  • Single
  • Amazing

• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

  

  Karl Popper
  • You
  • Speak
  • Impossible

• I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel, I may be pleased, I may even be impressed, but somewhere in the back of my mind I'm thinking, I can do that.

  

  F. Paul Wilson
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I always love challenges and doing something that I can't quite figure out.

  

  Bill Pullman