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I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.
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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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One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.
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What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting. It's all the same. Seventy-five percent of the skills are the same in both media.
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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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Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting.
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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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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
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A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.
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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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To a certain extent. I'm a fan of rehearsal on the day [of the shoot], more than getting together a week beforehand.
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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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With an inexperienced director, a lot of times the days go on to 14, 15, 16 hours. It goes horrendously overtime. And because of the lack of money, they just keep you there, regardless of the hours.
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I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.
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I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.
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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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I love women. I always have. I'm not pretending that I understand them, but I just love women. I love being in their presence and I love everything about them.
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We, in America, are so screwed up when it comes to sex. That's all we can see.
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It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
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I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.
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