Bill Pullman Quotes

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

I wish I'd done 'Dumb and Dumber.' I was offered the part, but I don't think I'd have been better than Jeff Daniels was. Another film I wish I'd done was 'Jerry Maguire.'

I just wrapped this movie called 'The Wedding Crashers' which was a pretty big break for me.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973.

The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

I never had a great role in a great film.

My ambition has always been to work with English and American actors and directors. Those were the movies that I was watching when I was growing up.

I love being part of these giant, epic movies. I take great pride in being part of them.

I spent a chunk of time in New Orleans doing the movie 'Free State Of Jones,' getting to work with Matthew McConaughey, and also did 'Concussion,' where I got to work with Will Smith.

I was very lucky that my first film, 'The Blind Side,' I worked with Sandra Bullock.

I was looking to be a part of commercial cinema and that was when I signed 'Jodi.'

No, I am not looking at being a part of television in India, but I may consider movies, if I get to play a strong character.

I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.

I want to do more movies, more adult roles.

Madhuri should do more films. She should do a film with me where she is romancing me.

Being a part of memorable movies has always been the goal.

I'd love to shoot some of these bigger movies as they come, and I'll go back to theater at some point again.

I've been a part of cool films without even romancing.

As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.

I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.

'Mission: Impossible' is basically entertainment, and for what it is, it's fine. I don't think most actors become actors to do that type of film.

I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.