Bill Pullman Quotes

• 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.

  Bill Pullman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fun

• 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.

  Bill Pullman

  Topics in Job

• 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.

  Bill Pullman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Truthfully, Avoided

• 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.

  Bill Pullman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Definitely

• 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.

  Bill Pullman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Point, Stage

• There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

  Bill Pullman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Idea

• Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

  Bill Pullman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theater

• Rural towns aren’t always idyllic. It’s easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

  Bill Pullman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Always, Easy

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

  Bill Pullman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brought

• 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.

  Bill Pullman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Play, Fall

• 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.

  Bill Pullman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crisis, Moments

• 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.

  Bill Pullman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Projects

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

  Bill Pullman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brother

• 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.

  Bill Pullman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Amount, Probably

Bill Pullman (14)

Birth:	17th December, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Bill Pullman is an American actor. Pullman made his film debut in the supporting role of Earl Mott in the 1986 film Ruthless People. He has since gone on to star in other films, such as Spaceballs, Independence Day, While You Were Sleeping, Casper and Lost Highway. He has starred in a number of plays and is also a Jury Member for Filmaka.

Related Authors

• Claude Berri
• Michael Curtiz
• Mark Hamill
• Colin Firth
• Joseph Anthony Mantegna Jr
• Robert Francis Vaughn
• Dudley Field Malone
• Robert Iler
• Lee Ryan
• Michael Chiklis

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 23rd April

Births

• 1921 - Warren Spahn
• 1942 - Sandra Dee
• 1974 - Barry Watson
• 1853 - Thomas Nelson Page
• 1968 - Timothy McVeigh

Deaths

• 1915 - Rupert Brooke
• 1985 - Sam Ervin
• 1957 - Roy Campbell
• 1988 - Michael Ramsey
• 1992 - Satyajit Ray