Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
BILL MURRAYIt’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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If I run into someone on the street, that’s one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.
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My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses
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People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
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The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.
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When you see grown men near to tears because they’ve missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
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If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just sort of think in your ordinary mind, ‘
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Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage – I had to bury myself in my napkin.
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The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
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Disneyland. The world’s biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
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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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You can’t think about what you’re going to do. It just gets in the way. You have to be just available for life, otherwise you’re not bringing anything to the party. So I don’t lie awake thinking about what I’m going to do workwise. There’s just too much going on.
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So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I’ve ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up – motley isn’t the word for that group.
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You’re supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you’re trying to going up, you’re trying to pull someone up at the same time.
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Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
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