Bill Macy Quotes

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

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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

• I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Trying

• 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

• Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Dark
  • Deep
  • Ocean

• 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

• The endearing elegance of female friendship.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Friendship

• While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

  

  Lela Loren
  • American

• I think you have to be crazy not to want to work on the Joker! I can't think of many characters, heroes or villains, that are as malleable as him. He really can be interpreted in so many different ways, and generally, people don't really want to scratch the surface because you can get into some really dark territory real fast.

  

  Lee Bermejo
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of memorizing their lines, and the whole process of starting to work with the other actors and the director, and doing rehearsals, and going to the location, and going through wardrobe.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Work
  • Reading

• I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

  

  Kris Allen
  • Music
  • Words
  • Emotional

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

  

  Bill Macy