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It’s a shame...you just don’t see young people doing anything outside these days.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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Stage Actor
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Miami
Florida
William Hall Macy
William Hall Macy Jr.
William Macy
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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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When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.
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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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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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One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.
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I've always felt that, no matter where you go, people are just people.
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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 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's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.
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Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.
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I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there.
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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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I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.
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That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.
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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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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.
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I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.
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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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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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The reason they came up with the ratings board is that there are a lot of movies out there, and parents need some guidance. Not only for the kids, but for adults, as well. If you don't like to see a certain kind of film, there should be some rating, so that you know what you're getting into. But the present system doesn't work.
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