Bill Pullman Quotes
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I want to be scary, boring, philosophical, funny, touching.
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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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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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I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.
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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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Othello is someone who's just had a victory, and it's the aftermath of coming back and attempting to live comfortably as a civilian.
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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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Growing things and being able to live off the land has always appealed to me.
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American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.
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I did 'Malice,' 'Sommersby,' and 'Sleepless in Seattle,' and they're as disparate characters as I've ever played. But somehow, there was that thing - they were all second male leads, so they all didn't get the girl in some weird way.
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I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.
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I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.
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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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There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.
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I always feel like there's some behaviour that we're all capable - we have our inhibitions protecting from indulging in certain appetites or developing certain appetites.
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I've always been a fan of George C. Scott, who was working in movies when I was in college... films like 'Patton' and 'Hospital.' I was really impressed by him, and I had seen him onstage as well in 'Uncle Vanya.' He was a champ to me.
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We're all part of humanity. And maybe there's something about the worst people, with the most destructive, warped minds, that is just an acceleration of something that is in quite a few of us.
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I think I was born out of my time.
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I don't have a favorite fruit. There are things that thrill me each turn of the season.
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I've seen a lot of actors in a lot of different stages of their careers, and I've seen it come and go. People get a sense of entitlement from it. And that's when it starts getting you in trouble.
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I always loved asking everybody when I arrived in England, from the drivers who picked me up to the people at the hotel to people I met when I was walking in the park, almost everyone at some point would say, 'Everyone loves Ant & Dec!' From eight to 80.
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I like to build houses.
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Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.
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I have always been impressed by the fruit community. There is a Tao of fruit, which is generous. You share what you know, and you give what you can.