I think all phases of one’s career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
BILL MURRAYI don’t feel like it’s pressure. It’s more of an obligation – not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there’s got to be a lightness in your leg.
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If Google doesn’t know the answer, then it’s not a question
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You want my dark side? Have I ever stolen anything? Not so much intentionally. But I don’t think it’s so much stealing as… being a part of the flow of the universe.
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Different vodkas have different effects. Some make you feel a little… poly-lingual. Some make you feel like you want to talk back to someone who’s giving you a hard time. Some make you feel like lifting kettle bells.
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And I say, ‘Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.’ And he says, ‘Oh, uh, there won’t be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.’ So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.
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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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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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Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You’ve got to give them a year and a half, two years.
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We’re Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
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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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Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
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The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that’s very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.
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I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.
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Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like, ‘Yep, I like this one,’ and you just do stuff with them.
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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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