Bill Pullman Quotes
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.
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When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
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I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.
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With 'The Vampire Diaries,' it's not just a tease, especially with the relationships. You're not sitting there going, 'God, I wish they'd get it over with and kiss!' There's no teasing, they jump right into the action.
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I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.
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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
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Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
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To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.
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It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.
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One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?
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I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.
