Bill Macy Quotes

You have to be just as meticulous on television as on the stage.

Bill Macy

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• Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Work
  • Problem

• My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Focus

• 2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Believe
  • Crazy
  • Same

• Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Picture
  • New
  • News

• I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Single
  • Weekend
  • Skills

• I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mother
  • Special
  • Gift

• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Birthday

• Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Money
  • Why
  • Know

• It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Women
  • True
  • Paris

• Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Trying
  • Nature
  • Succeed

• Love is an interesting thing.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Love Is

• I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Free

• It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Own
  • Step

• Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Different
  • Long

• Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Ego

• Natural gas is great for America in so many ways.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Great
  • America
  • Natural

• And as I’ve said elsewhere, a free press helps make a nation stronger and more successful, and it makes us leaders more effective because it demands greater accountability.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Free
  • Accountability

• To the extreme. Dylan was the coolest thing in the country. If you were a young person at that age, maybe you don't go for Dylan's gravelly style voice, but who he was and how different and bold his lyrics were, and his look, that was the closest thing the record business had to James Dean.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Different
  • Country
  • Business

• I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously, don't take too seriously.

  

  Kesha
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• Egypt has responded to hundreds of thousands of protesters by shutting down the Internet. Just a word of advice: If you want people to stay at home and do nothing, you should turn the Internet back on.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Home
  • Advice

• It suddenly occurred to me that the hottest tech startups are solving all the problems of being 20 years old, with cash on hand, because that's who thinks them up.

  

  George Packer
  • Up
  • Hand

• You have to be just as meticulous on television as on the stage.

  

  Bill Macy