William H. Macy Quotes

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

William H. Macy

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• All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Nature

• The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Voice
  • Emotion
  • Order

• When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Real
  • School
  • Usc

• That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.

  

  Carole King
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Freedom
  • Way
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• You make me feel like a natural man

  

  Carole King
  • Men
  • Feels
  • Natural

• When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Fulfilled

• I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People

• She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Good
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• Physical training is mental warfare!

  

  Tae Yun Kim
  • Training

• I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

  

  Len Wein
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  • Audience
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• There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Kids
  • Crime
  • Focused

• I just wanted to try directing, and the best way was to write the material, so I was imbued with its origins when I was dealing with the actors.

  

  Conrad Hall
  • Actors
  • Material
  • Dealing

• Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Light
  • Spiritual
  • Darkness

• They say the Catholic church played a big role in the genocide... and now they have me, a bishop, as proof, a prize to say there, that's what they did.

  

  Augustin Misago
  • Catholic
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  • Genocide

• If you nevertheless want to know what I feel when I release a bomb, I will tell you: I feel a light bump to the plane as a result of the bomb's release. A second later it's gone, and that's all. That is what I feel.

  

  Dan Halutz
  • Light
  • Release
  • Plane

• A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Actors
  • Firsts
  • Directors