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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.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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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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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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Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.
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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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We, in America, are so screwed up when it comes to sex. That's all we can see.
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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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To a certain extent. I'm a fan of rehearsal on the day [of the shoot], more than getting together a week beforehand.
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You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.
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I've got two little girls, I'm not scared about sex. I'll teach them, it's not going to kill them. But what could kill them is violence. Guns, drinking and driving, these are the real dangers in our society.
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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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We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.
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It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
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Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
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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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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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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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One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.
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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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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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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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