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So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst.
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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One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.
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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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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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It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
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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 love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.
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Making a mistake means overshooting a scene, shooting too many takes, for instance. Long after you've got it, you just keep shooting.
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Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
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