William H. Macy Quotes

The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.

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• Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Same

• If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Country
  • Enemy

• I'm not Cinderella.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Cinderella

• Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shine

• One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Want
  • Humanity

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Personality
  • Medical
  • Autism

• I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Why
  • Success
  • Day

• Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Gossip
  • Regrets
  • Bonding

• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Age
  • Young
  • Vacuum

• My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • She
  • Moving

• So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Now
  • Sword
  • Now And Then

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Community
  • Value
  • Moment

• The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Party
  • Beauty
  • Democratic

• I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Great
  • Think
  • Problem

• Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Athletes

• I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Prison

• In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Myself
  • Waiting
  • Weird

• People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

  

  Alexei Sayle
  • People

• People want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain

  

  Rumi
  • People
  • Happy
  • You

• First we've got population. Now, the world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that (forecast) by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent, but there we see an increase of about 1.3 (per year).

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.

  

  Kelly Reilly
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• ... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • She
  • Religious
  • Write

• The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.

  

  William H. Macy
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