Top 116 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Pullman
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.
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.
This whole climate change and what it's doing to our environment is frightening to people.
I wake up as soon as it gets light.
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.
I always come back to acting.
Sometimes when you really try to be earnest, everything disappears. If you really try to make a romantic movie, the first thing that goes out the window is the romance or real passion. It suddenly becomes cute-ville or cozy-ville. It's another world other than life.
I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.
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.
American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.
I love that vein which uses sci-fi to address society's problems. It is the same when you have useful nightmares - things morph, and you get to confront issues in your dreams.
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.
I noticed that in 'The Revenant,' as much as it is a good story of revenge and endurance, there are times that you get to escape with a story like that.
I really enjoyed doing Albee's 'The Goat.' It's a powerful piece and a really exciting play to do.
If I were born in the 1700s, I would look like a rounded man.
I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.
No one wants to say, 'That's not funny,' when you're working.
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.
I'd have to say that it kills me that there's a concern that 'Torchwood' has gone to America to become Americanised.
Sometimes you fall into the niche of being the confidant guy, or the good-looking guy, or being too charactery, or not charactery enough.
Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
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.
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.
The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.
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.
I'm often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don't have that problem.
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.
I've always been what they call a late bloomer.
I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.
I have never forgotten John Candy's generosity. He showed me how to be a gentle leader.
I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.
I never had any idea of going into movies.
I've never really been a television watcher and watched comedies, and I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television as the dad.
There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.
I was the kid who would join a sports team and be the biggest liability at first and a star player by the time the game got going. I just move very slowly.
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.
I was doing this children's theater play, and it was non-Equity. We were out of town to do it at the Kennedy Center, and it was always kind of, 'Well, the producers may have to turn this into Equity,' and that's what happened. It was kind of a silly children's theater play, but that's how I got my card.
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.
I want to be scary, boring, philosophical, funny, touching.
You're always carrying something that's interfering. It's like static noise that doesn't have to be there, and you have to school yourself to clean that out.
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.
Theater has always been most important to my psyche.
There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.
I like to build houses.
I don't have a favorite fruit. There are things that thrill me each turn of the season.
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.
Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.
We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.
'Zabriskie Point' was a time when I was in a lot of change and flux, and these incredible visuals hit me like they had rearranged the organs in my body. The ending and the free-floating debris and everything is an image that burned itself in my consciousness.
It's astounding to me that in a country where there is an ever-growing divide between rich and poor, that people won't accept the need for regulation on banks and salaries and so on.
There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.
I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
I think Westerns are always so great for clearing out the clutter and the ambiguities, and getting right to the broad strokes of that kind of situation.
I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.
I'm a very discriminating shoe shopper. I only look for something special. In fact, I don't think I've ever bought two pairs at the same time.
I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.
I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.
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.
My interest in theater really began in the '70s when American realism wasn't really in favor. I really dreaded going into a play that had a toaster that worked. I just didn't want to see that.
I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.
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