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" I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite. "
William H. Macy
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" The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night. "
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" 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. "
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" The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows. "
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" It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know. "
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" I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies. "
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" I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real. "
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" 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. "
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" The bar raises as you go. "
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" Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything. "
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" When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men. "
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" That red carpet has to be felt to be believed. "
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" I do them all for the money, I really do. "
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" Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood. "
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" I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion. "
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" We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love. "
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