Bill Pullman Quotes

My interest in theater really began in the '70s when American realism wasn't really in favor. I really dreaded going into a play that had a toaster that worked. I just didn't want to see that.

Bill Pullman

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• I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

  

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• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

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• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

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• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

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• A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

  

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• You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!

  

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• Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.

  

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• Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

  

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• Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

  

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• In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

  

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• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

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• Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.

  

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• I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.

  

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• One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

  

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• In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.

  

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• I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

  

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• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

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• I’ve never acted my age and I never will. It’s just the way I’ve always been.

  

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• In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.

  

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• The future of American film lies on television.

  

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• I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it.

  

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  • Time
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• My interest in theater really began in the '70s when American realism wasn't really in favor. I really dreaded going into a play that had a toaster that worked. I just didn't want to see that.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • American