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.

Bill Pullman

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• May
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• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

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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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  • Black
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• I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

  

  Ursula Andress
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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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• When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

  

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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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• Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu tribesman, in fact he is not an African at all. He is quite obviously Chinese. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it makes those who persist in seeing him as a great African statesman look rather foolish.

  

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• Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.

  

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• The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.

  

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• I used to love 'Jeeves And Wooster.' That theme tune was great. I remember writing to them when I was little to get the music so I could learn it on the piano, and they sent me the sheet music.

  

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• Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

  

  Mother Teresa
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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.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Children
  • May
  • Silly