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I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.

Bill Murray

When you see grown men near to tears because they’ve missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
BILL MURRAY

Feet Men White
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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Believe Giving Real
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.
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Gift Girl Mean Nice Paper Wrapping
Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
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Golf Kids Play
Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
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Deep Dying Humor Thought
I 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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Chairs Folding Sitting
This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
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Dresses Rehearsal
I think we’re all sort of imprisoned by – or at least bound to – the choices we make… You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.
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Choices Thinking Want
I’m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do.
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Charming Guy Pay
It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
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Anything Artist Hard
If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say ‘Did you just see what I saw?!’, you’ll find that no-one wants to talk to you.
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Person Random Saws Shoulders Want
Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
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Fields Shows Standards
When everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it’s terrible and amazing stuff.
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Amazing Diesel Organism Stuff
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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Kids Names Numbers
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Needs Suits
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.
BILL MURRAY

Golf Jobs Laughing

I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.

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I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.

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