Bill Pullman Quotes
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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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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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I don't think I'm repeating anything I've done before, but sometimes I lose track.
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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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There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.
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I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.
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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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American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.
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I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.
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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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Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
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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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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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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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I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
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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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I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
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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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It's during wartime that innovations happen.
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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.