Bill Pullman Quotes
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A lot of people just ask me about how I can do small budgets and big budgets, but many actors do both. I think the more self-destructive impulse I have is doing so many different characters.
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The idea of taking classic American stories and reinterpreting them for a time and place is not just commercially viable. These stories also carry a sensual nature of what it meant to be an American, and they deserve to be reinterpreted.
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There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.
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With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
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It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The audience amplifies the experience.
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I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
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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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It's funny: When I first heard they were thinking of me for the president in 'Independence Day,' I just assumed it was a comedy - I didn't exactly think of myself as leader-of-the-free-world material.
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Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
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I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
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Stacy Keach was really fun to work with, and Henry Winkler was very fun.
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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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With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.
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I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.
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I'm not a gardener. I don't have the consistency for gardening, and I have barely enough for an orchard. I don't embarrass myself. You have to be there tending and weeding. With orchards, you can go through negligent periods and recover.
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I'm often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don't have that problem.
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Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.
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If you are in an Edward Albee play, you say Edward Albee is the greatest playwright of all time... If you're in an Israel Horovitz play, you say Israel Horovitz is the greatest playwright of all time.
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Theater has always been most important to my psyche.
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Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.
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I've been lucky to have opportunities with David Lynch in 'Lost Highway' and Jennifer Lynch in this movie 'Surveillance,' so I've always boomeranged around a little bit, and no one has caught my foot in the trap yet, but I think if I move fast enough... 'cos I think I got trapped a couple of times.
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I don't think I'm repeating anything I've done before, but sometimes I lose track.
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I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
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It's during wartime that innovations happen.