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That’s sort of why I got into acting. I realized the more fun I had, the better I did it. And I thought, that’s a job I could be proud of. It’s changed my life learning that, and it’s made me better at what I do.

Bill Murray

We’re Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
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Country Home Travel
Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
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Every Day Helicopter Studio Talking
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.
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Brother Winter Years
Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
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Errors Otherwise Thinking
So you’d have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining?
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Entertaining Figure Something Visually
And even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we win! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field.
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Children Girls Heads Men Noses
You work, you get paid, you drink.
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Drink Get Paid
This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
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Dresses Rehearsal
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
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Father Lonely Mother
The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.
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Forget Hell Interesting Mean Women
If Google doesn’t know the answer, then it’s not a question
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Answers Google Media Social
I don’t feel like it’s pressure. It’s more of an obligation – not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there’s got to be a lightness in your leg.
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Light Mean Trying
I didn’t get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.
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Chairs Folding Sitting
People confuse friendship and relaxation. It’s incredibly important to be relaxed – you don’t have a chance if you’re not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different.
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Important People Relaxation
And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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Like Work Working
In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can’t help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They’re very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you’re there.
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Country Helping Ideas
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.
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Better Relaxed Wise Words
When I feel like I’m stuck, I do something – not like I’m Mother Teresa or anything, but there’s someone that’s forgotten about in your life, all the time. Someone that could use an ‘Attaboy’ or a ‘How you doin’ out there.
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Forgotten Mother Use
The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.
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Army Feet Humorous
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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Anything Children Say Talking
You cannot pray them out of hell.
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Hell Praying Scary
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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Harder Scripts Writing
Okay, let’s pick a date. Let’s plan this and make a party and get married.’ Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world.
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Date Make Party Pick Travel
There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing.
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Couple Kids Kitchen
That’s the reason I’m not the one that’s dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
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Life Powerful Reason
Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me.
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Frighten People Rattle Supercharged
I’ve been lucky, I’ve had movies that made a lot of money, so I don’t feel like I have to kill every time out. I don’t want that pressure. I don’t need it.
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Lucky Needs Want

That’s sort of why I got into acting. I realized the more fun I had, the better I did it. And I thought, that’s a job I could be proud of. It’s changed my life learning that, and it’s made me better at what I do.

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That’s sort of why I got into acting. I realized the more fun I had, the better I did it. And I thought, that’s a job I could be proud of. It’s changed my life learning that, and it’s made me better at what I do.

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