28 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
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