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Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.

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
Teacher
Television Actor
Theatrical Director
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Miami
Florida
William Hall Macy
William Hall Macy Jr.
William Macy
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You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.
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At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.
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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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It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.
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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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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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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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Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.
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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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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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I'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've started to implement that. It was either that or my wife would break my heart.
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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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We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
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We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.
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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.
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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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Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
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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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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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I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
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