Bill Pullman movie quotes

“- Constance Spano: Now what do we do?
- President Thomas J. Whitmore: Address the nation. There's gonna be a lot of frightened people out there.
- Constance Spano: Yeah? I'm one of 'em.”
Margaret Colin - Constance Spano
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore

- Lone Starr: I wonder, will we ever see each other again?
- Yogurt: Who knows? God willing, we'll all meet again in "Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money".
Bill Pullman - Lone Starr
Mel Brooks - Yogurt

“- Jack: I guess I don't remember meeting you.
- Lucy: Well, that's probably because we've never met.
- Jack: That could have something to do with it.”
Bill Pullman - Jack
Sandra Bullock - Lucy

“Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist.”
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore

“Passion is the enemy of precision.”
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“- Hector Cyr: Let's not overlook the fact that he didn't eat me.
- Jack Wells: 'Cause he just ate a cow, stupid!”

Oliver Platt - Hector Cyr
Bill Pullman - Jack Wells

“Research is an art, not a science, because anyone who knows what they're doing can find the crumbs, the wheres, whats, and whos. The art is in the whys: the ability to read between the crumbs, not to mix metaphors.”
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“- Steve Arlo: Why are we talking on the phone?
- Daryl Zero: I told you. We can't be too careful. Two guys in an airport... talking? It's a little fishy.”

Ben Stiller - Steve Arlo
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“Isn't it amazing, how two separate lives can link up together. I mean two differentness.”
Bill Pullman - Julian

“- President Thomas J. Whitmore: What do you want us to do?
- Captured Alien: Die. Die.”
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore
Gary A. Hecker - Alien Vocal Effects

“- Earl Mott: Did you just shoot at me?
- Ken Kessler: No, you moron! There's police all over the place! Hundreds of them!
- Earl Mott: Do I look that stupid?
- Ken Kessler: Yes, you do!”
Bill Pullman - Earl
Judge Reinhold - Ken Kessler

“I feel this great, great pressure coming down on me. It's constantly coming down on me. It's crushing me.”
Bill Pullman - Jason

- Jack Wells: Ma'am...
- Kelly Scott: Look, if you call me "ma'am" one more time I'll sue you, and with today's laws it's possible.
- Sheriff Hank Keough: She's good.
Bill Pullman - Jack Wells
Bridget Fonda - Kelly Scott
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough

“It's good for my skin. You know if you do enough of that stuff over a very short period of time, you get, like, these canker sores on your tongue.”

Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“It's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one. You can tolerate a little compromise, if you're actually managing to get something accomplished.”
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore

“- Peter: Remember the squirrels?
- Jack: Don't even say it.
- Peter: First I knocked them out of their nest with a rock.
- Jack: Peter!
- Peter: Then I saved them.”
Peter Gallagher - Peter
Bill Pullman - Jack

“- Sheriff Hank Keough: I told you two days we'd have to camp.
- Kelly Scott: Yes! Camp! But I thought that meant Ramada Inn. I never heard tents! Will there be toilets?
- Jack Wells: Maybe we should just take you back.
- Kelly Scott: Why? Because I prefer toilets? Maybe I should just wipe myself with some leafy little piece of poison oak. And...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough
Bridget Fonda - Kelly Scott
Bill Pullman - Jack Wells

“- Dark Helmet: Before you die there is something you should know about us, Lone Star.
- Lone Starr: What?
- Dark Helmet: I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.
- Lone Starr: What's that make us?
- Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing! Which is what you are about to become.”
Rick Moranis - Dark Helmet
Bill Pullman - Lone Starr

“I can't possibly overstate the importance of good research. Everyone goes through life dropping crumbs. If you can recognize the crumbs, you can trace a path all the way back from your death certificate to the dinner and a movie that resulted in you in the first place.”
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.”
Bill Pullman - Julian

“- Steve Arlo: Maybe you should stop snorting that shit.
- Daryl Zero: Keeps my teeth sharp.”
Ben Stiller - Steve Arlo
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“- Daryl Zero: What's wrong with these people?
- Steve Arlo: I told him, there's no use lying to you. Eventually, you always figure it out. It's just slowing things down.”

Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero
Ben Stiller - Steve Arlo

“- Dargent Peytraud: Ahh, Doctor Alan! Why are you in Haiti, Doctor Alan?
- Dennis Alan: It says there on the passport I'm a tourist. I came to see the sights.
- Dargent Peytraud: Yes, happy happy happy island people! Then why visit an insane asylum?
- Dennis Alan: I'm an anthropologist, it's a tax write off.”
Zakes Mokae - Dargent Peytraud
Bill Pullman - Dennis Alan

The essence of my work relies fundamentally on two basic principles: objectivity and observation, or "the two obs" as I call them. My work relies on my ability to remain absolutely, purely objective, detached. I have mastered the fine art of detachment. And while it comes at some cost, this supreme objectivity is what makes me, I dare say, the... (continue)(continue reading)
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“When you spend enough time around the chemistry of desperation, you come to recognize the smell. One desperate element is combustible. More than one desperate element is lethal.”
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero