William H. Macy Quotes
A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
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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.
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The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.
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When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.
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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.
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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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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
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You make me feel like a natural man
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When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.
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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.
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She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
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Maintain a receptive attitude!
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Physical training is mental warfare!
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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
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I had a lot of time before I actually got my break so to speak. I was building websites for other actors. I worked in a grocery store back in the little village where I grew up but I found it mind-numbingly boring.
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When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.
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Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.
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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
