I like to wear my dad's shoes to auditions as sort of a lucky thing. I feel like I'm on solid ground.
Bill Pullman
I'm often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don't have that problem.
I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.
I always love challenges and doing something that I can't quite figure out.
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 well in 'Uncle Vanya.' He was a champ to me.
Globalisation is happening so fast it's confusing for people, and tolerance is threatened.
I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.
I've always been what they call a late bloomer.
I was the kid who would join a sports team and be the biggest liability at first and a star player by the time the game got going. I just move very slowly.
If I were born in the 1700s, I would look like a rounded man.
I've always liked authors such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury.
I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
I did 'Malice,' 'Sommersby,' and 'Sleepless in Seattle,' and they're as disparate characters as I've ever played. But somehow, there was that thing - they were all second male leads, so they all didn't get the girl in some weird way.
I really enjoyed doing Albee's 'The Goat.' It's a powerful piece and a really exciting play to do.
Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
It's during wartime that innovations happen.
Growing things and being able to live off the land has always appealed to me.
I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.
That massiveness of bureaucracy at the VA is chronic and has been chronic.
I think I was born out of my time.
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.
I went to school in the 1970s, and there was a lot of physical theater in those days.
'The Last Seduction,' 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'While You Were Sleeping' did a lot to get me noticed for bigger roles.
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.
Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.
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 watched John Wayne movies, matinees - things like that. It was only in college that I saw European films. That became more of what I was interested in.
This whole climate change and what it's doing to our environment is frightening to people.
I wake up as soon as it gets light.
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.
Westerns give people a chance to see wide-open spaces and life before technology took over.
I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.
Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
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.
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.
I always loved asking everybody when I arrived in England, from the drivers who picked me up to the people at the hotel to people I met when I was walking in the park, almost everyone at some point would say, 'Everyone loves Ant & Dec!' From eight to 80.
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.
It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The audience amplifies the experience.
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.
I have a pretty good grip on who I am.
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.
I want to be scary, boring, philosophical, funny, touching.
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.
I hate to admit it, because it makes me sound weird, but I'm Mr. Shoes. I own over 30 pairs.
That's how we invaded Iraq, through the fear of an 'evil empire,' and it just makes people feel like bulls with the toreadors - you see red, and you charge.
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 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.
The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.
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.
