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Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
Actor
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Miami
Florida
William Hall Macy
William Hall Macy Jr.
William Macy
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Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.
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If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
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Nothing else counts except what you want.
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It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.
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You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.
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I've always felt that, no matter where you go, people are just people.
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You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.
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I don't know if it's fair to say that it's a bad time for movies. It seems to me that throughout the entire history of filmmaking, every year there have been about two really wonderful movies, about 10 others that are pretty good, and a whole pile of garbage.
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It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church.
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I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.
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All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.
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Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.
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Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.
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I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.
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