William H. Macy Quotes
If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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I don't study; I create.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.
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Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.
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I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.
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I ask you, what is the use of having your "cake" if you can't eat it? What exactly are you supposed to do with it? Put it on your mantel and look at it? Cake is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.
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Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.
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Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.
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If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
