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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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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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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 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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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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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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Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.
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Many times, I like to read the script before I even know who they want me to play, so I can read it and really enjoy it as an audience member. I think that's given me the ability to ferret out the really special scripts from all the rest.
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Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
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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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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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We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.
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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.
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The emotions will take care of themselves. You don't have to prod them along. As a matter of fact, you get in trouble when you prod them along.
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Nothing else counts except what you want.
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I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.
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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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When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.
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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 feel very secure about the role of the actor in the future. They need us, because stories are about people.
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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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