Bill Pullman Quotes
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There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
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American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.
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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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I always come back to acting.
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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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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'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
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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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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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Theater has always been most important to my psyche.
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Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
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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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Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
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I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
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With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.
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I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.
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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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I don't watch TV. I'd probably be a better person if I did, but it makes me anxious.
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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 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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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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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.