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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.

William H. Macy

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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.
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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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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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Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.
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I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.
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I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there.
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I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.
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I've studied Stanislavsky, and Mamet taught Stanislavsky, and I studied with Sanford Meisner. But the part of the method that I think is the most fruitful is the method of physical actions. It all comes down to your objective: Nothing else counts except what you want. How you feel will take care of itself.
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It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
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I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
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