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The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You’ve got to give them a year and a half, two years.

Bill Murray

People say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
BILL MURRAY

Badges People Sometimes
When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don’t like to have a situation placed over my head.
BILL MURRAY

Chance Jobs Phones
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?
BILL MURRAY

Entertaining Figure Something Visually
Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can’t buy backbone. Don’t let them forget it. Thank you.
BILL MURRAY

Crosshairs Remember Take Thank
I’m over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you’re in trouble. It’s like wanting to be married – you’ll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I’ve seen it.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Ambition Desire
You cannot pray them out of hell.
BILL MURRAY

Hell Praying Scary
Like: ‘Don’t walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there’s somethin’ in there you’re going to bring out.’ You gotta commit. You’ve gotta go out there and improvise and you’ve gotta be completely unafraid to die.
BILL MURRAY

Able Die Hands Pockets
When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, “We’re not gonna be friends until we get this done.
BILL MURRAY

Jobs People Together
I don’t know what my fans are going to think. It’s definitely not what they’re used to from me.
BILL MURRAY

Fans Thinking Used
You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
BILL MURRAY

Adventure Common Sense Whiskey
Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
BILL MURRAY

Awards Day Groundhog Script
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
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

Cities might Son
One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Myself Way
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Awards Campaigns
It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
BILL MURRAY

Anything Artist Hard

The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You’ve got to give them a year and a half, two years.

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The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You’ve got to give them a year and a half, two years.

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