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We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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Miami
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William Hall Macy
William Hall Macy Jr.
William Macy
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When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.
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I've got two little girls, I'm not scared about sex. I'll teach them, it's not going to kill them. But what could kill them is violence. Guns, drinking and driving, these are the real dangers in our society.
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If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer.
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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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I've always felt that, no matter where you go, people are just people.
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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.
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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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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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It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.
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I think acting is getting better and better.
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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'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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I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble.
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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 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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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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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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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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I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.
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Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.
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