I’ve been lucky, I’ve had movies that made a lot of money, so I don’t feel like I have to kill every time out. I don’t want that pressure. I don’t need it.
BILL MURRAYMy favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.
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Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
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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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All parties are good.
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And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
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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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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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The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.
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You cannot pray them out of hell.
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And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, ‘Oh! You’re gonna be the mayor?’ And I hadn’t even read the script yet.
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Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
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You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow.
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People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
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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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