Quotes from Bill Pullman

I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.

Stacy Keach was really fun to work with, and Henry Winkler was very fun.

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.

Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'

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.

Globalisation is happening so fast it's confusing for people, and tolerance is threatened.

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.

There's always a certain kind of homework you have to do when there's an accent involved.

My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.

I like to build houses.

I've done a lot of different kinds of things, so different people remember me for different things.

I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.

With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.

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.

It's funny: When I first heard they were thinking of me for the president in 'Independence Day,' I just assumed it was a comedy - I didn't exactly think of myself as leader-of-the-free-world material.

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.

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.

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.

I want to be scary, boring, philosophical, funny, touching.

I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.

I don't think I'm repeating anything I've done before, but sometimes I lose track.

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.

I did this play, 'Expedition 6,' that I worked on for three years in between other things. It was a good, interesting time for me because I trained as a theater director, and I went back, and we toured it around.

I'm intrigued by a tough situation, and I try to do something with it.