William H. Macy

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”