William H. Macy's Quotes

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.

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.

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.

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.

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.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

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.