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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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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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.
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It wasn't easy to get the family to this point. I had to work two jobs. I had all nine kids. I stayed there with them and got them all into show biz. I don't care what anyone else said, I did my job.
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I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.
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The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life.
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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.
