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And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, ‘Oh! You’re gonna be the mayor?’ And I hadn’t even read the script yet.

Bill Murray

The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who’s actually doing the distribution in France.
BILL MURRAY

Giving Guy Independent
Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
BILL MURRAY

Errors Otherwise Thinking
I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.
BILL MURRAY

Award Country Years
Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.
BILL MURRAY

Acting People World
Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
BILL MURRAY

Day Kissing Necks
The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
BILL MURRAY

Critics Reason Right Wrong
It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
BILL MURRAY

Anything Artist Hard
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Needs Suits
The first year I had money, I really went shopping. I got really caught up in it. I bought all my brothers sets of luggage, and I bought ’em winter coats from Giorgio Armani – winter coats. And I got a pair of socks from this brother.
BILL MURRAY

Brother Winter Years
When everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it’s terrible and amazing stuff.
BILL MURRAY

Amazing Diesel Organism Stuff
My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, ‘That’s it-let’s get the hell outta here.’
BILL MURRAY

Acting Award Winning
The cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That’s kind of what it’s like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.
BILL MURRAY

Angry People Pop Thousand
If we don’t get this done, we’re never going to be friends, because if we don’t get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed.”
BILL MURRAY

Done Failed Friend Together
Be available for life to happen.
BILL MURRAY

Available Happens Life
I’d sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.
BILL MURRAY

Different Gone Spiritual
I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
BILL MURRAY

Know Sour Taste

And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, ‘Oh! You’re gonna be the mayor?’ And I hadn’t even read the script yet.

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