You say, “Do you want a piece of this movie?” And he’s got to sell this movie to get his money back. That’s the brains of it; that’s the genius of this financing. “You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you’ve got Germany.”
BILL MURRAYTotie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You’re new and you’re hot and things go wrong.
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If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just sort of think in your ordinary mind, ‘
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And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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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.
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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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I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.
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Be available for life to happen.
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And go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if when you come back to JFK, when you land in JFK, and you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport.
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Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
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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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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.
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People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
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The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.
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He’s going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It’s just total horror, and the camera’s still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, “Anything else, Bud?”
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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. – Stephen Leacockof Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.
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