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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.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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Many times, I like to read the script before I even know who they want me to play, so I can read it and really enjoy it as an audience member. I think that's given me the ability to ferret out the really special scripts from all the rest.
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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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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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It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
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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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You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.
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Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
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The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.
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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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So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst.
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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 have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.
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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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Perhaps there is such a thing as obscene sex, but I know that violence is always obscene. So I don't get it, that you can disembowel a woman but you can't see her tits. Who made that up? That's sick!
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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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When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
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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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The only reason an indie gets made is because someone has a burning passion to do it and won't take no for an answer, as opposed to a big film, which is like a train that starts rolling down the tracks and nothing can stop it.
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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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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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