William H. Macy Quotes

I have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.

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• I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Past
  • Name
  • Opportunities

• If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • American
  • Help
  • Want

• Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Men
  • Children
  • Done

• Come and look for Peterkin, poor little Peterkin. No one would believe us if we told them what we know, Or they wouldn't grieve for Peterkin, merry little Peterkin...

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Believe

• My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Water
  • Training
  • Athlete

• People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.

  

  Gayle King
  • People
  • Work
  • Fly

• Love is music, and music is home.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Music
  • Home

• Most of the shows I want to do I'm not smart enough to figure out how to watch.

  

  David Spade
  • Smart

• Before I came to Italy to play for Milan in 2007, I saw in the papers that my name was mentioned in connection with some English clubs.

  

  Alexandre Pato
  • English
  • Connection

• I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.

  

  Philippa Gregory
  • People

• You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

  

  Marla Gibbs

• But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.

  

  Jeff Miller
  • Time
  • American
  • Political

• Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • God
  • Trying
  • English

• In a free market capitalist system, 'price signals' are everything. Prices are determined by buyers and sellers in the free market, and these prices are broadcast from the exchanges, reaching all corners of the economy - where they are used to transact business.

  

  Max Keiser
  • Business
  • Free

• In person, RuPaul is warm, funny, personable - someone who thoroughly enjoys life.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Life
  • Funny

• I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Year
  • Played
  • Arthur Godfrey

• Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Play
  • Theatre
  • Mood

• Andy Griffith and I spoke on the phone not too long before he died. I told him I loved him and he told me he loved me. He was a wonderful man.

  

  Betty Lynn
  • Loved
  • Phone
  • Wonderful Man

• If you think of most murders as being between people who know each other, it's very easy to figure out who the killer is. But when you have a murder that appears random, where the person is not someone that's within the known radius of the victim, then it's much, much more difficult to solve.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Victim

• He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Heart
  • Rest
  • Tears

• Think bigger than society lets you think. And find mentors. My life is filled with people who knew me when I was 19 and had a horrible South African accent and bleach-blond hair and who believed in me in a way that was brutal. They were just unbelievable and consistent and smart. Find mentors who, every time you're with them, you're being schooled. Just absolutely schooled.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Society
  • Smart
  • My Life

• I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.

  

  Michael Arad
  • Should
  • Process
  • Engineers

• I have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Scripts
  • Tendencies