Quotes from William H. Macy

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

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.

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

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 love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

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

Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.

Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.

We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.

Nothing else counts except what you want.

The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

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.

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

I love women. I always have. I'm not pretending that I understand them, but I just love women. I love being in their presence and I love everything about them.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

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

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

I'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've started to implement that. It was either that or my wife would break my heart.

Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.

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

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.