William H. Macy Quotes

It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.

William H. Macy

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• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

  

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• Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.

  

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• No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.

  

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• I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what they're up to.

  

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• I love actors.

  

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• Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

  

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• I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.

  

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• My parents are really honest when they watch something. My nan is brutally honest. She'll tell me, 'Oh, you looked awful in that scene,' and I'm like, 'Well, I was giving birth at the time, so it probably worked with the character, Nan.'

  

  Katherine Kelly
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• Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

  

  Alyssa Milano
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• Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.

  

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• Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

  

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• There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.

  

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• My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

  

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• There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.

  

  Kevin Spacey
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• I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

  

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• I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.

  

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• When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.

  

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• The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

  

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• The new right-wing movement is a wide group of people committed to free speech, anti-war, trade. It's sympathetic to whistleblowers.

  

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• Women have more of that patience, as a class. That ain’t because we’re born with it, though. It’s because we’re schooled to it and taught early that if we don’t have it we won’t never win.

  

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• It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Actors
  • Scene
  • Directors