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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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'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 always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.
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I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
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I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
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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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Stacy Keach was really fun to work with, and Henry Winkler was very fun.
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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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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 intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.
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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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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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I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.
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It's during wartime that innovations happen.
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The chaos of my life has a lot to do with my hair.
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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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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.
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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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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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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 want to be scary, boring, philosophical, funny, touching.