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I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
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I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a recurring character. Do 10 shows a year, something like that.
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Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.
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So much of the violence in the movies is b.s. violence: A guy in the middle of a large city with 14 people lying on the ground that he's just killed with his superhuman powers, and there's not a cop to be found. Not a siren to be heard. No price to be paid. That's not true, and I don't like that sort of stuff.
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There are statistics out that say 20 year olds, 18 years olds think about sex 90 percent of the time. They only don't think about sex when they're eating, and that's rare.
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One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
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Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.
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There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.
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What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.
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We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing.
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Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.
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Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.
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One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.
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Another mistake a director can make is not to be prepared, so you get there on the day to shoot the scene, and they don't know how it should be blocked, and they're not clear on how they want to do a scene.
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I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.
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When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.
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I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
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Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.
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I've always felt that, no matter where you go, people are just people.
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I have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.
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