I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn’t I get that day over and over and over?
BILL MURRAYBe available for life to happen.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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If you have a good script, that’s what gets you involved. It’s harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
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People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
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You don’t have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don’t need a giant crew. It’s great.
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Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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All parties are good.
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Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it’s usually something unusual.
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But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything – your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.
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Buddy Hackett [was] talking – this is Hackett, not me – about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families … the look of absolute horror.
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Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who’s actually doing the distribution in France.
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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.
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The set is stocked with Victorian extras and little children in Oliver kind of outfits, and the director says, “All right, Bud – just give it whatever you want.” And Hackett goes off on a rant. Unbelievably obscene.
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I think we’re all sort of imprisoned by – or at least bound to – the choices we make… You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.
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