Bill Pullman

“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.”

“I've always been a fan of George C. Scott, who was working in movies when I was in college... films like 'Patton' and 'Hospital.' I was really impressed by him, and I had seen him onstage as...”

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

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

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

“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 su...”

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

“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 exi...”

“If I were born in the 1700s, I would look like a rounded man.”

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

“'The Last Seduction,' 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'While You Were Sleeping' did a lot to get me noticed for bigger roles.”

“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 was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.”

“That massiveness of bureaucracy at the VA is chronic and has been chronic.”

“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.”

“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.”