Quotes by William Macy

• When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
• The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.
• Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
• That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.
• The bar raises as you go.
• I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
• The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.
• Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.
• There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.
• We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.
• We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
• We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing.
• When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.
• Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.
• Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
• When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.
• Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.
• Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
• I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
• Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.
• I do them all for the money, I really do.
• I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.
• I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.
• I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.
• It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
• I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.
• I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.
• I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.
• I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
• If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
• I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.
• A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.