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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.
William H. Macy
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William H. Macy
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 13
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Miami
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William Hall Macy
William Hall Macy Jr.
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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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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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Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.
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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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When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.
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I'm a big fan of rehearsal. I'm famous for pulling the cast together, not so much to formally rehearse, but just to run the lines. My theory of acting is that it takes all your attention just to stay in the moment, and keep your attention on the other person, and get him to do what you want him to do.
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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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I have been working out for 30 years, staying in shape in the dream that someday I would get to play a sex scene. Finally I get one, and they cut it.
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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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Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.
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I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.
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Making a mistake means overshooting a scene, shooting too many takes, for instance. Long after you've got it, you just keep shooting.
William H. Macy
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.
William H. Macy
It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.
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Nothing else counts except what you want.
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I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.
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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.
William H. Macy
I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.
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Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
William H. Macy
A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.
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