128 Quotes by Bill Pullman

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.