William H. Macy Quotes

Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

William H. Macy

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• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Easy
  • Build
  • Shallow

• I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Good
  • Day
  • Joy

• My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Friends
  • Joy
  • WIld

• It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Remember
  • Easy
  • Act

• Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Doing

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • House
  • Attention
  • Focus

• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Trust

• It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Away

• Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • Live
  • Money

• It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Joy
  • Talk

• I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Life
  • Career
  • Easy

• Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Taken
  • Easy
  • Still

• I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Trying

• I am still a very optimistic person. I continue to do work with joy.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Optimistic

• Both of my parents are actors, so I grew up backstage with them. I would see some of their shows 30, 40, 50 times. I would have it all memorized. I loved it.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Up
  • Parents

• Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Peace

• Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • May
  • Responsibility
  • Choices

• Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Joy
  • Easy
  • Scripts