Bill Pullman Quotes
There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal 100 percent: it's much more interesting.
Quotes to Explore
-
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
-
M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
-
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
-
Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
-
You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
-
If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
-
When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
-
If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
-
I don't know the right way to retire.
-
From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
-
Midi is my hobby.
-
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
-
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
-
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
-
It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
-
There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
-
If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
-
I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
-
It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
-
So many people’s school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn’t care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don’t like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.
-
Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.
-
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.
-
I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.
-
There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal 100 percent: it's much more interesting.
