Bill Pullman Quotes

#1. Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

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#2. 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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#3. 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.

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#4. 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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#5. I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

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#6. Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

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#7. The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

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#11. 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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#12. There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

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#13. Listen! We're not just doing this for the money! We're doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!

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#14. I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.

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#15. I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

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#16. Playing the president is interesting because, unlike a lot of different roles, people pay so close attention to who the president is, all of them, everybody's got an opinion about the president.

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