William H. Macy Quotes
I've studied Stanislavsky, and Mamet taught Stanislavsky, and I studied with Sanford Meisner. But the part of the method that I think is the most fruitful is the method of physical actions. It all comes down to your objective: Nothing else counts except what you want. How you feel will take care of itself.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.
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Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.
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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.
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I've studied Stanislavsky, and Mamet taught Stanislavsky, and I studied with Sanford Meisner. But the part of the method that I think is the most fruitful is the method of physical actions. It all comes down to your objective: Nothing else counts except what you want. How you feel will take care of itself.
