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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.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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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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That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.
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The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, It's going to be my face up there on the frickin' screen, so I better keep my wits about me. Nobody's going to care that I was bad because I was not happy. They're only going to know I'm bad.
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I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.
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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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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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You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.
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You'd much rather act with a pal, someone you know really well. That way, you can cut all the niceties and go right to insulting each other.
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I am against censorship in any form. I think anybody should be able to make any movie he or she wants and let the public decide. If it's disgusting and they don't want to see it, they won't go. I believe in the audience.
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It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.
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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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It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church.
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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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What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting. It's all the same. Seventy-five percent of the skills are the same in both media.
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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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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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You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.
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Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting.
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