William H. Macy Quotes

What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting. It's all the same. Seventy-five percent of the skills are the same in both media.

William H. Macy

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• I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Happens
  • Fan
  • Bully

• I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Always
  • Film
  • Same

• That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Better
  • Everyone

• It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Long
  • Movie

• I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Should
  • I Can
  • Decide

• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Time
  • Like
  • Arts

• I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • World
  • Writing
  • Why

• I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Love

• Salesmen always need something to sell.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Need
  • Something
  • Sell

• As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• I don't have business with any politicians.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Politicians
  • Any

• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Fate
  • Thing
  • Accident

• I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Career
  • Interested

• It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Great
  • Government

• I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Movies
  • Right
  • Thing

• The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Page

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• I couldn't get a date, but I couldn't be quite sure how unattractive I'd become. I was still friendly; I made jokes, and in my mind, if I saw a woman smiling at me... I still had a chance. I did not.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Mind
  • Woman
  • Chance

• Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Business
  • Free
  • Cooperation

• Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.

  

  Randy West
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Simple

• The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Politics

• What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting. It's all the same. Seventy-five percent of the skills are the same in both media.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Acting