Bill Pullman

“Growing things and being able to live off the land has always appealed to me.”

“The military is a discrete entity. Then they come back, and they're such a small percentage of the population, and they can't really - it's hard for them to talk to civilians.”

“I always feel like there are a lot of different types of favourites. There are some that I look to for interesting things, some that I look to for acting things, others that I watch again and again.”

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

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

“The chaos of my life has a lot to do with my hair.”

“I like to wear my dad's shoes to auditions as sort of a lucky thing. I feel like I'm on solid ground.”

“There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal 100 percent: it's much more interesting.”

“I really enjoyed doing Albee's 'The Goat.' It's a powerful piece and a really exciting play to do.”

“I've seen a lot of actors in a lot of different stages of their careers, and I've seen it come and go. People get a sense of entitlement from it. And that's when it starts getting you in trouble.”

“I noticed that in 'The Revenant,' as much as it is a good story of revenge and endurance, there are times that you get to escape with a story like that.”

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

“As an actor, you're continually riding the waves of whether you're in or out, getting work or not getting work, and Kazan was really a guy who was condemned into not working and looking to go deep into someplace and just live inside his art.”

“I'd have to say that it kills me that there's a concern that 'Torchwood' has gone to America to become Americanised.”

“Theater has always been most important to my psyche.”

“I hate to admit it, because it makes me sound weird, but I'm Mr. Shoes. I own over 30 pairs.”

“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 think I was born out of my time.”

“'The Virginian' has a very important romantic story line that you don't find in a lot of Westerns... At the heart of the story is quite a bit of pain and a sense of loss.”

“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.”