Bill Pullman Quotes
'The Last Seduction,' 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'While You Were Sleeping' did a lot to get me noticed for bigger roles.
Quotes to Explore
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.
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He was growing up. Soon he would be a man. He wondered what that would mean. Surely he could not have more required of him as an adult that had been required of him as a child. There could not be more.
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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. 'Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,' she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
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I have been performing and touring and doing shows all over the world. But it's really something special to get back on the U.S. cast of 'Stars on Ice.' It's something I let go because of family commitments.
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It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.
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Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.
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In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.
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No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.
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I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.
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Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
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I always wanted to be like my dad.
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And I used to buy 'Fangoria,' the horror magazine, which made my mum wonder if I was going to be a serial killer.
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We need to make sure we have secure borders.
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There are so many emotions when I step on the ice.
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I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.
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The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!
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A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
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I think visual seduction is really a lovely thing. To be able to look at something and feel you want to get closer and closer to it, and as you get closer to it, the more you drop your guard.
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If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.
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They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
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What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.
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'The Last Seduction,' 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'While You Were Sleeping' did a lot to get me noticed for bigger roles.
