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

• Music gives a soul to the universe.

  

  Plato
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Universe

• Wayne's my man. I'm proud of him, he worked hard. You know with a lot of people, Wayne's been doing this for years. Wayne had a record deal before I had a record deal, you know what I'm saying? Even though Cash Money been our for 12, 13 years so you know, for him to come up for where he came up, it was all them, B.G, Juvie, Turk, everybody. To see him excel from all that and become one of the hottest people in the game, 10, 12 years later, I'm really proud of him. That's my lil' man.

  

  Cam'ron
  • People
  • Men
  • Proud

• Our main concern is to reduce mercury. We look at it clearly as a toxic chemical. We've been doing more testing around the state in streams and lakes and fish, and we're finding more of it.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Fish
  • Streams
  • Chemical

• In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."

  

  Eyvind Kang
  • Truth
  • Expression
  • Recognize

• 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