Bill Pullman Quotes
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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'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'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 you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
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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 did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.
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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 co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.
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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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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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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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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 never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
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The chaos of my life has a lot to do with my hair.
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My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.
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Stacy Keach was really fun to work with, and Henry Winkler was very fun.
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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 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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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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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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Growing things and being able to live off the land has always appealed to me.