The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.
BILL MURRAYPeople 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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I don’t know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn’t know how much money I was making.
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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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The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.
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I’m not an ungenerous person; I don’t resent it. It’s just sort of a head-scratcher.
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When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I’m just trying to make the sound guy laugh, the script supervisor.
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If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it’s not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You’ve got to keep the energy up.
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You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
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I don’t believe that you can give the same performance every take. It’s physically impossible, so why bother? If you don’t do what is happening at that moment, then it’s not real. Then you’re holding something back.
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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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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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I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
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Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.
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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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And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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