Bill Macy Quotes

'Oh, Calcutta,' was one of the healthiest shows I've ever been in.

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• Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Year

• We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Community
  • Prison
  • Him

• 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Promise
  • Number
  • Transform

• But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Play
  • Impossible
  • September

• I love Wiz Khalifa.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • I Love

• I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Think
  • Community

• Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• I felt that it was cool to even get to the point where I was able to audition on the actual 'SNL' stage. Looking back on it, I can't believe that I wasn't more nervous.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Believe
  • Cool
  • Looking Back

• Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Child
  • Perseverance

• I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes, and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Cute

• Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Islam has always been a part of America's story.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America

• Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Morning

• The American family will fear less, our national security will be more assured, and we won‘t let the Venezuelas or Nigerias or the Saudi Arabias or the Irans jerk us around by the gas nozzle the way they are doing it now.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Family
  • American
  • Fear

• I work quite diligently and wish that I were better and smarter. And these both are one and the same.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Work
  • Wish

• My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.

  

  Ken Kercheval
  • Cancer
  • Smoking

• It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Time
  • High
  • Environment

• The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Work
  • Country
  • Future

• Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.

  

  John Glover
  • Cutting

• The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, nearsightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

  

  John Cheever
  • Men
  • Help

• I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

  

  William Sanderson
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Actors

• I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.

  

  Mark Shriver
  • Family
  • Together
  • Parents

• I just wanna be happy, and I realized to be happy I just wanna do what I wanna do with this music, That’s when it connects the most. When I finally let everybody be wrong, that’s when I realized I needed to do my thing.

  

  Snow Tha Product
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Needed

• 'Oh, Calcutta,' was one of the healthiest shows I've ever been in.

  

  Bill Macy