William H. Macy Quotes
An American actor and writer.
(1950 - )
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A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.
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Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.
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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 do them all for the money, I really do.
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I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.
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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.
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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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I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
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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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I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.
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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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I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.
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I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.
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I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
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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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It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
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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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Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
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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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Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
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