Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
BILL MURRAYI 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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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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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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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.’
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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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The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.
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Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
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Somewhere there’s a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.
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This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
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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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You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
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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 can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
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Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
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You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. […] That’s the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you’ll actually witness, that you’ll participate in.
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Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
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