William H. Macy Quotes

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William H. Macy

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 13, 1950

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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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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When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

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We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing.

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The bar raises as you go.

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I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

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Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

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A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.

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Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

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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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Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

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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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The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.

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There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

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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 have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

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It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

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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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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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