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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.

Bill Murray

There’s definitely a lot of trash that comes with the prize of being famous. It’s a nice gift, but there’s a lot of wrapping and paper and junk to cut through.
BILL MURRAY

Gift Girl Mean Nice Paper Wrapping
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.
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Cities might Son
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
Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it’s Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.
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Best Happened Part Remembering
And I say, ‘Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.’ And he says, ‘Oh, uh, there won’t be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.’ So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.
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Effort Money Nice
To people who want to be rich and famous, I’d say, “Get rich first and see if that doesn’t cover it.”
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Firsts People Want
It’s much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.
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Cake Guy Play
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
Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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Crash Knows People
Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like, ‘Yep, I like this one,’ and you just do stuff with them.
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Friendship New Stuff
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
You cannot pray them out of hell.
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Hell Praying Scary
We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
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Cherries Ice Cream Syrup
I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.
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Award Country Years
Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
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Blood Giving Inspirational
I’m just a potato that won’t quit. I’m a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I’ve got legs.
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Eye Legs Potatoes

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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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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