William H. Macy
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"William Hall Macy, Jr." is an American actor, screenwriter, teacher and director in theater, film and television. His film career has been built mostly on his appearances in small, independent films, though he has appeared in summer action films as well. Macy has described himself as "sort of a Middle America (United States)/Middle American, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant/WASPy, Lutheranism/Lutheran kind of guy... Everyman".

Macy was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo (film)/Fargo. He has won two Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Awards/Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for nine Emmy Awards and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards in total. He is also a four-time Golden Globe Award nominee. Since 2011 he has played the main character in the Showtime (TV channel)/Showtime television series Shameless (U.S. TV series)/Shameless. Macy and actress Felicity Huffman have been married since 1997.

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It's the most challenging thing I've ever done.

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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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Maybe some action hero might think it would hurt his career.

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It is. Because you know what people want in a movie? They want to know what happens next. It's the third act, and the thing we've discovered is no amount of money in the world is going to write the third act.

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As much wizardry as you can come up with, the audience only wants to know one thing at any given time: .

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The Weinstein Company has been releasing the film slowly, letting the critical acclaim build. Harvey Weinstein invented the way independent films are marketed today, and no one is better at it.

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It's in the middle of the country, and it's got the best of both worlds in it.

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Is try to spend three or four days here and I pretend that I'm going to screenings, but actually I ski all day and crash parties at night.

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