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It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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William Hall Macy Jr.
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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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Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. It's not right. Someone's gotta say it. They said it. I applaud them.
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I have been working out for 30 years, staying in shape in the dream that someday I would get to play a sex scene. Finally I get one, and they cut it.
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I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.
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It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
William H. Macy
I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there.
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Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.
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That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.
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I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.
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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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Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
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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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You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.
William H. Macy
That's pretty much what every scene is about, getting people to see your point of view. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
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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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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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A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.
William H. Macy
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.
William H. Macy
You'd much rather act with a pal, someone you know really well. That way, you can cut all the niceties and go right to insulting each other.
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