William H. Macy Quotes
All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.
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I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.
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No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
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The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.
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We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.
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It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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It wasn't getting worse at all. It was just feeling tight.
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Most parents don’t know really their children.
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I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
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I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.
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I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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Reflections can sometimes lie in order for the mind to try. Create your own butterfly wings. We are all valid.
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All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.
