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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.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
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Miami
Florida
William Hall Macy
William Hall Macy Jr.
William Macy
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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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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 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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It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
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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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You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.
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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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It's not good for people to have the safety net too low... People can take care of themselves better than we allow them to.
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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 metaphor the way some people love junk food.
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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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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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Perhaps there is such a thing as obscene sex, but I know that violence is always obscene. So I don't get it, that you can disembowel a woman but you can't see her tits. Who made that up? That's sick!
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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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Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
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The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.
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I don't know if it's fair to say that it's a bad time for movies. It seems to me that throughout the entire history of filmmaking, every year there have been about two really wonderful movies, about 10 others that are pretty good, and a whole pile of garbage.
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I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a recurring character. Do 10 shows a year, something like that.
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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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Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.
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