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It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
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
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Television Actor
Theatrical Director
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Miami
Florida
William Hall Macy
William Hall Macy Jr.
William Macy
Violence
Operatic
Godfather
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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've always felt it's the directors purview to say what it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an actor to have the big picture in mind - it bollocks you up. An actor's purview is the tiny little... We measure our performance in seconds.
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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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When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
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Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.
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I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there.
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I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.
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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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We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
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Women, in order to recharge their batteries, gather in groups. They can recharge their batteries with their sisters. I tend to recharge my batteries in solitude, therefore the motorcycle trips. I need to be alone. As a matter of fact, I have to be careful. I could turn into a hermit.
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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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You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.
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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'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've started to implement that. It was either that or my wife would break my heart.
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I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.
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Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
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So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst.
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The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.
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Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
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We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.
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