Bill Pullman Quotes
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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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There's something about Warren Wilson. You can gain a lot of very important things and skills that you carry over into whatever you decide to do.
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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 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 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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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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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 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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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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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 did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.
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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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I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
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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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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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Stacy Keach was really fun to work with, and Henry Winkler was very fun.
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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 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 chaos of my life has a lot to do with my hair.
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Sometimes you fall into the niche of being the confidant guy, or the good-looking guy, or being too charactery, or not charactery enough.
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I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.