While You Were Sleeping is one of my favourite films. He plays the quintessential good guy. Big and stocky, funny, handsome - I will always swoon for Jack Callaghan!
_While You Were Sleeping_ is my top 1 RomCom of all time. I can still recite every line of the movie from start to finish. I developed a celebrity crush on Bill Pullman since then, which got reinforced after seeing _Casper_ and _Independence Day_ back to back. To me, he is still the best movie president ever and had the best speech. He has aged like fine wine, this man!
I love Bill Pullman. I was privileged to meet him backstage at the Kennedy Center after his perfomance in "The Subject was Roses". He was terrific on stage. In person he was warm, charming and very down to earth. He's from Montana and I had visited there. We talked about trout fishing. We also discussed one of my favorite movies he starred in, called "The Zero Effect". He was the kind of man who you'd like to have as your neighbor.
@@nothingruler14All It's one of those films many people have never heard of. And to think the plot is driven by the fact that Ryan O'Neal can't find his keys. It has everything: mystery, romance, quirky characters. I'm due to find it streaming somewhere for a rewatch. And yes, a great soundtrack too!
One of the best videos of the series! Bill took time to really tell stories about most of the movies/lines....love that! Wish more would do the same. 🎉
My nephew is named after the actor who voiced Casper, Malachi. I remember my sister being pregnant and she and my mom were looking through movies for names and this popped up.
@@RobertEkard aye yo, lol. Got in trouble as a kid proving a point. My older sis often got to pick the flick, and she'd watch Jurassic Park, Casper, then Jurassic Park again, like if she got to pick we would usually watch both movies twice. And I love em both but finally I was like mom can we please watch Anything else I know it's her pick but and Mom's like you haven't seen It That many times. So it's the scene with Bill shipping his daughter off to school as she's arguing with the uncles and I just start quoting them back and forth and it ends with piss off ECT drop dead too late that whole thing. After I'm done she's like fine you proved your point ..but did you just say piss off?! I was like ok oof but still we watched sumthin else finally. Sorry didn't mean to go into a diary entry heh.
I think one of my favorite Bill Pullman lines was in the 1986 comedy "Ruthless People" where he played the dim-witted Earl Mott. When Carol (Anita Morris) finished laying out her blackmail plan and he smugly declare "Yeah, then we're off to Haiti." to which she replied, "That's Ta-hi-ti!" 😂
Remember it all too well. Bill was quite the scene-stealer in "Ruthless People". And he has a great bit near the end when a dumbfounded Judge Reinhold shouts "What the hell is going on?" to which Earl yells (assuming he's hard of hearing): "I'm robbing you!" Bill was outrageously funny as the Miami Vice-y doofus in that classic.
Was hoping to see a quote from Ruthless People: 'I am robbing you!' An overlooked comedy from the 80's. Didn't know Bill Pullman had quite a filmography though.
Met him once while working retail, and he was super nice. Though I was a bit surprised because of all the celebrities I met while working retail, Bill Pullman was not it. I called him Mr. President and he chuckled, which made me laugh at my silly joke.
Bill Pullman’s hilarious cameo in Season 2 of the Hulu series “This Fool” has one of the most laugh-out-loud funny sight gags in television history. Check it out. And The Zero Effect too.
Pullman is mostly the straight man in _Spaceballs_ and everyone else gets the best lines to play off of him... but I always kind of liked, "We're not just doing this for the money... We're doing it for a sh*load of money!"
In elementary school we were given a choice between going to go see the first chicken run and going to see titan a e. My classmates were insistent Not going to go see an animated movie because they thought it was going to be too much of a kid's movie despite me. And my older brother specifically saying that this is not For younger audiences. A fight in which the two of us lost and even after all of these years I am still bitter about that
Bill has been in a lot of great movies. It's funny. I know who he is, but I never knew his name, per say. Bill is definitely a great actor and worked with some legends, just as he is a legend.
While you were sleeping, was the first movie I remember watching on HBO. I don't think I ever saw it in the theater. I was a huge fan of Sandra Bullock. One of the best romcoms. Bill looks a little scruffy. But still handsome. :)
First of all, I'm totally bummed they didn't include The Last Seduction or Ruthless People. He was fantastic in both. Secondly--Liebestraum: great movie. Highly underrated.
I know it isn't a famous movie, but my favorite Bill Pullman character was of Daryl Zero in "The Zero Effect." If you've never seen it, I highly recommend watching it if you can find a copy to watch.
Bill Pullman. Sigh. No matter the complexity of the character, there is always a vulnerability in there. He has the ability to portray the wholesome qualities of a gentleman but, with enough curiosity, to risk the danger of depravity. Hairline for days. Sigh.
That is so creepy, I know what he looks like, but some of these are movies I've never seen and I don't even recognize him...if it wasn't the voice and the smirk..
They missed his best movie, the tragically forgotten Ruthless People. The best lines in the movie were about him but not said by him. He’s surrounded by cops with guns drawn and he doesn’t believe they’re policemen. One cop says, “This may be the stupidest person on earth.” The other cop says, “Perhaps we should shoot him.” Hilarious movie.
I remember seeing him in The serpent and the rainbow. I hadn't thought of that movie in 30 years! I actually second guessed myself and had to Google it!
While You Were Sleeping has my vote. Bill Pullman was so lovely with Sandra Bullock and at that time I thought they might be a couple outside the movie.
What about malice? He had great lines like, “I beat the shit out of a deeply disturbed serial rapist.” Or “what does anyone want? I want the Red Sox to win the World Series.” Or the last line to Bebe neuworth about ice in scotch whiskey and saying blended whiskey is crap.
He was the best "other guy"who didn't get the girl at the end of a film in Sleepless in Seattle. I kept hoping for Pullman to remember "Miss Scarlett in the broom closet with the radio."
Bill Pullman was at a showing of the Ballad of Lefty Brown at the Hawaii International Film Festival and when he did the meet and greet afterwards I quoted space balls to him (I was your father’s brother’s cousins former roommate). He didn’t get it.
