Bill Pullman movie quotes

“- Barf: Holy shit!
- Princess Vespa: How was that?
- Lone Starr: Not bad.
- Barf: Not bad... for a girl.
- Dot Matrix: Hey that was pretty good for Rambo!”

John Candy - Barf
Daphne Zuniga - Princess Vespa
Bill Pullman - Lone Starr
Lorene Yarnell Jansson - Dot Matrix

- Julian: Call it something catchy, "Reluctant Tourist", and you are the fella to write it.
- Macon: But, I hate to travel.
- Julian: I thought so. So, do businessmen. I mean these folks would rather be at home in their living rooms. So, you will be helping them to pretend that that's where they are.

Bill Pullman - Julian
William Hurt - Macon

“- Megamaid Guard: What the hell are you doing?
- Lone Starr: The Vulcan neck pinch?
- Megamaid Guard: No, no, no, stupid, you've got it much too high. It's down here where the shoulder meets the neck.
- Lone Starr: [changes hand position] Like this?
- Megamaid Guard: Yeah! [falls to the ground]”
Tom Dreesen - Megamaid Guard
Bill Pullman - Lone Starr

“A person can't escape their nature.”
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“- Hector Cyr: What'd Bickerman say?
- Jack Wells: Well, she didn't want to tell us about the second croc 'cause she was afraid we'd blow its head off.
- Sheriff Hank Keough: Women's intuition.”
Oliver Platt - Hector Cyr
Bill Pullman - Jack Wells
Brendan Gleeson - Sheriff Hank Keough

“- Fred Madison: I had a dream about you last night.
- Renee Madison: Yeah? What was it about?
- Fred Madison: You were in the house, calling my name, but I couldn't find you. Then there you were, lying in bed... but it wasn't you. It looked like you, but it wasn't.”
Bill Pullman - Fred Madison
Patricia Arquette - Renee Madison

“- President Thomas J. Whitmore: I don't understand, where does all this come from? How do you get funding for something like this?
- Julius Levinson: You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?”
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore
Judd Hirsch - Julius Levinson

“- Steve Arlo: Are you telling me that, instead of calling me, you had me fly up here so you could tell me to go straight back to the computer - and then fly back again tonight?
- Daryl Zero: It wasn't an emergency. There was no reason to risk the long-distance lines.”
Ben Stiller - Steve Arlo
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“She will always be a singular unforgettable event, the only time I ever took leave of my objectivity. Perhaps the most able blackmailer of her time, she was at once the worthiest opponent and the greatest ally, and the only woman I have ever... the only woman, period. And though I never would've anticipated it, in the end she did for me what I...” (continue)(continue reading)

Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“Look, Annie... I love you. But let's leave that out of this. I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?”
Bill Pullman - Walter

“When you live with no passion at all, other people's passion come into glaring relief.”
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“It was my mother's. I had them size it down. She had really fat fingers.”

Bill Pullman - Walter

“If you're going to hunt humans, you should know we travel in packs.”

Bill Pullman - Capt. Joseph Korso

“- Kathy Whiting: I was kind of happy, in a miserable kind of way.
- Peter Whiting: Is that worse than being miserable in a happy kind of way?”
Harley Jane Kozak - Kathy Whiting
Bill Pullman - Peter Whiting

“For every event, there is a cause and effect. For every crime, a motive. And for every motive, a passion. The art of research is the ability to look at the details, and see the passion.”
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“- Ed: Do you own a video camera?
- Renee Madison: No. Fred hates them.
- Fred Madison: I like to remember things my own way.
- Ed: What do you mean by that?
- Fred Madison: How I remembered them. Not necessarily the way they happened.”
Louis Eppolito - Ed
Patricia Arquette - Renee Madison
Bill Pullman - Fred Madison

“- Jack: Tell me about your dad, what was he like?
- Lucy: He was a lot like me, brown hair, flat chest.”
Bill Pullman - Jack
Sandra Bullock - Lucy

The Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!". We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore

“- Jack Wells: Do you know how your husband died?
- Mrs. Bickerman: Oh yes! I killed him.
- Jack Wells: You killed him?
- Mrs. Bickerman: Oh yes!”
Bill Pullman - Jack Wells
Betty Marion White - Mrs. Delores Bickerman

“All crime is passionate. It's passion that moves the criminal to act, to disrupt the static inertia of morality.”
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“- Rolo Rockwell: I can't believe you're leaving right before Dad's party!
- Crow Black: I haven't got time to party, I've gotta go play ball! Besides, I wish you'd all wise up! This isn't Levi's party, look at all this! This is your party! Watch the game! It's dedicated to Dad. So long!”
John Glover - Rolo Rockwell
Bill Pullman - Crow Black

“When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you're only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good. Because of all the things in the world, you're sure to find some of them.”
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“- Kelly Scott: We're doing the right thing.
- Jack Wells: You might think differently if you get eaten.”

Bridget Fonda - Kelly Scott
Bill Pullman - Jack Wells

“- President Thomas J. Whitmore: Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, destroyed.
- General William Grey: We have also learned that NORAD and our top commandos were the first to be taken out. At this rate, we could be looking at the worldwide destruction of every major city in the next 36 hours.
- President Thomas J. Whitmore: Then we're being...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore
Robert Loggia - General William Grey

“People know they're being followed when they turn around and see someone following them. They can't tell they're being followed if you get there first.”
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero