William H. Macy Quotes
"The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Awards, Drinking, Night, Spirit)
"Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Horror)
"That red carpet has to be felt to be believed."
- William H. Macy
"The bar raises as you go."
- William H. Macy
"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."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Life, Dogs, Past, Walking, Will)
"The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows."
- William H. Macy
(Related: People, Jobs)
"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."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Care)
"There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Women)
"We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Love, First, Sense, Want)
"We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Men, People, Ladies, Leading)
"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."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Sex, Thought)
"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."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Car, Actor, Living, Summer)
"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."
- William H. Macy
(Related: God, Day)
"Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Actor, 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."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Time, Life, Thought, First)
"Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good."
- William H. Macy
"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Actors, Preparation)
"I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Character)
"Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Work)
"I do them all for the money, I really do."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Money)
"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."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Job, Want)
"I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite."
- William H. Macy
"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."
- William H. Macy
"It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Violence)
"I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real."
- William H. Macy
"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."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Kids)
"I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Writing)
"I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams."
- William H. Macy
(Related: 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."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Character, Play, Want)
"I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Movies, Theater)
"A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife."
- William H. Macy
(Related: Wife, Favorite)