Bill Pullman Quotes
I was doing this children's theater play, and it was non-Equity. We were out of town to do it at the Kennedy Center, and it was always kind of, 'Well, the producers may have to turn this into Equity,' and that's what happened. It was kind of a silly children's theater play, but that's how I got my card.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
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Athletics is in my blood.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.
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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
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I was doing this children's theater play, and it was non-Equity. We were out of town to do it at the Kennedy Center, and it was always kind of, 'Well, the producers may have to turn this into Equity,' and that's what happened. It was kind of a silly children's theater play, but that's how I got my card.
