Bill Pullman Quotes
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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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There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.
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I've always been what they call a late bloomer.
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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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I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
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My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.
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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 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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Stacy Keach was really fun to work with, and Henry Winkler was very fun.
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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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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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It's during wartime that innovations happen.
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I watched John Wayne movies, matinees - things like that. It was only in college that I saw European films. That became more of what I was interested in.
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The military is a discrete entity. Then they come back, and they're such a small percentage of the population, and they can't really - it's hard for them to talk to civilians.
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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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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 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 think about Laura Bush every once in awhile. She is a great supporter of the arts. I did a show at the Eisenhower Theater, and she would make a point of coming backstage. The relationship between Laura and George Bush was always that way where you felt like he was at his best behavior when he was in her company.
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I wake up as soon as it gets light.
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I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.
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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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I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.
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Some of the shoes I have are from movies - I have my workman's boots from 'While You Were Sleeping' - while others are shoes I've had forever.
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We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.