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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.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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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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Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.
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Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. It's not right. Someone's gotta say it. They said it. I applaud them.
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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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A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.
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At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.
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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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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 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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Another mistake a director can make is not to be prepared, so you get there on the day to shoot the scene, and they don't know how it should be blocked, and they're not clear on how they want to do a scene.
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I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.
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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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I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
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Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
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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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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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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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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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Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.
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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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