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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.

William H. Macy

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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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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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It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.
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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 love metaphor the way some people love junk food.
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We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing.
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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 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'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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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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The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.
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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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We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.
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There will always be people with disabilities. And by my estimation, the scorecard for the way we take care of those who need our help the most, those at the very bottom of that safety net, is pretty dismal. And that has to change.
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All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.
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There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.
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I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.
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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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Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
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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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We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
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