That’s sort of why I got into acting. I realized the more fun I had, the better I did it. And I thought, that’s a job I could be proud of. It’s changed my life learning that, and it’s made me better at what I do.
BILL MURRAYIf 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.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn’t I get that day over and over and over?
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Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
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I’ve got kids and that’s important. It’s funny, you think that there’s an expiration date on them and there just isn’t.
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The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who’s actually doing the distribution in France.
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And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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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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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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I knew that’s where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn’t make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship.
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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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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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We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
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Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.
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The only good thing about fame that I’ve gotten is I’ve gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I’ve gotten into a restaurant when I didn’t have a suit and tie on. That’s really about it.
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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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