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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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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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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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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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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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Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.
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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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Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.
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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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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 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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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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Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.
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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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I do love comedy, but I'm not brave enough to tackle a script whose goal is to make you laugh. That's tough. The ones that can do it, I tip my hat off to them, but I don't have that kind of humor or mind.
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I've studied Stanislavsky, and Mamet taught Stanislavsky, and I studied with Sanford Meisner. But the part of the method that I think is the most fruitful is the method of physical actions. It all comes down to your objective: Nothing else counts except what you want. How you feel will take care of itself.
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The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.
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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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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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Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.
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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.
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