Bill Macy Quotes
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion. (22)
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
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What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.
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Some people in the industry feel TV actors can't do anything else.
