Bill Pullman
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"William James "Bill" Pullman" is an American actor. Pullman made his film debut in the supporting role of Earl Mott in the 1986 film Ruthless People. He has since gone on to star in other films, including Spaceballs (1987), While You Were Sleeping (film)/While You Were Sleeping (1995), Casper (film)/Casper (1995), Independence Day (1996 film)/Independence Day (1996) and Lost Highway (film)/Lost Highway (1997). He has also appeared regularly on television, usually in TV movies and miniseries, though he also had a starring role in the one-season show 1600 Penn (2012-2013).

Pullman began his career teaching theater and appearing in stage plays; he has continued to perform onstage on and off throughout his career.

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Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President Clinton].

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A story about... I play a guy who is with... Patricia Arquette is my wife and we're having troubles. It's a raw relationship. And she ends up dead and they think I did it. I don't think I did.

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There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

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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.

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Oddly, I've been brought into a conflict the town is facing now. A pharmacy chain is threatening to demolish four historic houses near the one I grew up in to build a drive-thru superstore. The money they're offering is beyond anyone's expectations, yet the town could cannibalize its heritage and never quite recover.

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I love to watch my kids stand under the tree and munch on (fruit). It's a constant pleasure to see them get past the bumps and spots on the fruit to realize it's as good as -- or better than -- store-bought.

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There was also an undercurrent of desperation about the town's sagging image. They put up booster signs with slogans like "It's Swell in Hornell." As teenagers we mocked it. Yet it made me sensitive to the town's identity crisis: How does an underdog pull itself up?

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The Zero Effect.

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Defied cynicism and entered politics.

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