Bill Pullman Quotes
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I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.
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I've never really been a television watcher, so I never watch comedies.
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There is something exciting when you see people who are very formal talking with each other, and there is a sense that they have chosen to be that way. There is something masked that is more interesting to me than just people who are intent on displaying their uniqueness or whatever.
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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.
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That massiveness of bureaucracy at the VA is chronic and has been chronic.
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I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.
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You're always carrying something that's interfering. It's like static noise that doesn't have to be there, and you have to school yourself to clean that out.
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'The Virginian' has a very important romantic story line that you don't find in a lot of Westerns... At the heart of the story is quite a bit of pain and a sense of loss.
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I hate to admit it, because it makes me sound weird, but I'm Mr. Shoes. I own over 30 pairs.
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That's how we invaded Iraq, through the fear of an 'evil empire,' and it just makes people feel like bulls with the toreadors - you see red, and you charge.
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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.
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I never had any idea of going into movies.
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It's hard to explain to people how, if you're really capable of providing the right professional work environment, it allows you to get more personal.
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There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
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I've always been what they call a late bloomer.
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I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television shows as 'the dad,' but that was Kryptonite to me. I was like, 'This would be the death of me. I'll be a cesspool of niceness.' It doesn't feed me.
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It's astounding to me that in a country where there is an ever-growing divide between rich and poor, that people won't accept the need for regulation on banks and salaries and so on.
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I don't watch TV. I'd probably be a better person if I did, but it makes me anxious.
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I did this play, 'Expedition 6,' that I worked on for three years in between other things. It was a good, interesting time for me because I trained as a theater director, and I went back, and we toured it around.
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Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
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Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
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The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.
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There's something about Warren Wilson. You can gain a lot of very important things and skills that you carry over into whatever you decide to do.
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I don't think I'm repeating anything I've done before, but sometimes I lose track.