The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.
BILL MURRAYMy 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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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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Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
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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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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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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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Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don’t have to feel that way. You feel like the script’s coming to you, you can just relax. You don’t have to drive the boat.
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When I feel like I’m stuck, I do something – not like I’m Mother Teresa or anything, but there’s someone that’s forgotten about in your life, all the time. Someone that could use an ‘Attaboy’ or a ‘How you doin’ out there.
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Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.
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People 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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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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You cannot pray them out of hell.
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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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Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
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There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
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I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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