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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.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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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 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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Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.
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When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
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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'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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As an actor, early on, you learn that the audience is never wrong. And if you think they are wrong, you need to find a different way to make a living. Collectively the audience is smarter than you will ever, ever be.
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One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
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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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I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.
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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 really love hanging out on the set, and I love the life, and all of that. But I don't think I could stick with this profession if it weren't for those 15 minutes a day when I get to act. That's the part I love. For some strange reason, it's the time that I'm the least self-conscious in my whole life.
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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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