142 Quotes by William H. Macy

I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.

One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.

The emotions will take care of themselves. You don't have to prod them along. As a matter of fact, you get in trouble when you prod them along.

I have been working out for 30 years, staying in shape in the dream that someday I would get to play a sex scene. Finally I get one, and they cut it.

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.

Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.

It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.

Sometimes, directors are afraid to stop shooting, because the second you stop and say, "We got it," and move on, you'll never get another chance. And they're terrified to get in the cutting room and not be happy. So they just keep shooting.

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.