William H. Macy

I have.

They wouldn't give me the part.

I was begging.

No, I'm just kidding.

You know what?

I married very well.

My wife is smart, Felicity Huffman.

Anyway, I was pissing and moaning about these scenes because there was a lot of skin in that thing.

And I thought, oh, geez.

And she said, you better figure this out or get them to cut the scenes because it sounds to me like you're planning to fail.

Whoa.

It sounds like you're going to be okay with being bad in these scenes.

And I took it to heart.

So when we met with the director, Wayne...

i i had analyzed all the scenes even scenes that didn't have much dialogue i thought where to begin begin where do we end how did that move the plot and in a lot of those scenes it did there was something that happened and in a couple i couldn't figure it out and wayne to his credit said i can't either and he cut him whoa cool wife though to be like you gotta nail this yeah no pun intended we um

it's tough you know when she does a film and that scene comes up i just look away and close my eyes and just hum so i can't hear anything right i get past it yikes you guys have acted together though i remember sports night yeah that was a that was a before uh it's time show i think that was a really good show oh man it was great aaron sorkin's writing was fabulous on that talk about dialogue

Every show had a laugh track.

But that was a really.

Isn't it bizarre when you watch TV now and it's got a laugh track?

It's so primitive.