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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.

William H. Macy

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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Teacher
Television Actor
Theatrical Director
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Miami
Florida
William Hall Macy
William Hall Macy Jr.
William Macy
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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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I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.
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I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
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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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I am against censorship in any form. I think anybody should be able to make any movie he or she wants and let the public decide. If it's disgusting and they don't want to see it, they won't go. I believe in the audience.
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It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.
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I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.
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I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.
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The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, It's going to be my face up there on the frickin' screen, so I better keep my wits about me. Nobody's going to care that I was bad because I was not happy. They're only going to know I'm bad.
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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.
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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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One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
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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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There will always be people with disabilities. And by my estimation, the scorecard for the way we take care of those who need our help the most, those at the very bottom of that safety net, is pretty dismal. And that has to change.
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I really love hanging out on the set, and I love the life, and all of that. But I don't think I could stick with this profession if it weren't for those 15 minutes a day when I get to act. That's the part I love. For some strange reason, it's the time that I'm the least self-conscious in my whole life.
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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
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We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.
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Every scene has two people who want two different things, so there's conflict in every scene. You've got to duke it out, and you've got to get the other person to change his or her mind and do it your way.
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The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.
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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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