Quotes from Bill Pullman

I'm often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don't have that problem.

There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.

I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.

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.

I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.

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.

I enjoy that with theater, you can just go into a room with a paper bag lunch: there're no cables, no electricity. It's the purest experience.

Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.

This whole climate change and what it's doing to our environment is frightening to people.

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.

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 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.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

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

I have never forgotten John Candy's generosity. He showed me how to be a gentle leader.

I've always liked authors such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury.

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 don't have a favorite fruit. There are things that thrill me each turn of the season.