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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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The only reason an indie gets made is because someone has a burning passion to do it and won't take no for an answer, as opposed to a big film, which is like a train that starts rolling down the tracks and nothing can stop it.
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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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We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.
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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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Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.
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Every scene has two people who want two different things, so there's conflict in every scene. You've got to duke it out, and you've got to get the other person to change his or her mind and do it your way.
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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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I love women. I always have. I'm not pretending that I understand them, but I just love women. I love being in their presence and I love everything about them.
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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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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 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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Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.
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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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I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble.
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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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Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.
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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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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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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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Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.
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