Bill Pullman Quotes
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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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Stacy Keach was really fun to work with, and Henry Winkler was very fun.
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I always come back to acting.
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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 never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
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I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.
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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 did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.
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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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It's during wartime that innovations happen.
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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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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 did 'Malice,' 'Sommersby,' and 'Sleepless in Seattle,' and they're as disparate characters as I've ever played. But somehow, there was that thing - they were all second male leads, so they all didn't get the girl in some weird way.
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American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.
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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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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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The chaos of my life has a lot to do with my hair.
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I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.
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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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We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.
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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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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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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.