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William H. Macy

"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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"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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"When a foundation is built following sound structural principles, with solid, high-quality materials, anything that is layered on top is more secure, durable, and resilient. Your integrity works the same way."

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"Three essential virtues are patient, loyalty and kindness."

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"Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility."

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"Fruits of the spirit in the man attract others to him."

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"Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!"

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"If you treat yourself well, you will be good to others."

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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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"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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"There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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"I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing."
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"A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife."
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