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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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Miami
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William Hall Macy
William Hall Macy Jr.
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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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It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
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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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The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.
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I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.
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I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
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I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a recurring character. Do 10 shows a year, something like that.
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The emotions will take care of themselves. You don't have to prod them along. As a matter of fact, you get in trouble when you prod them along.
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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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Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
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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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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
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I've always felt that, no matter where you go, people are just people.
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Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.
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The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.
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Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
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