If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just sort of think in your ordinary mind, ‘
BILL MURRAYThat’s the reason I’m not the one that’s dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
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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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I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren’s dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.
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There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
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The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.
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Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.
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Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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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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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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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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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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Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
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Buddy Hackett [was] talking – this is Hackett, not me – about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families … the look of absolute horror.
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If I run into someone on the street, that’s one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.
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I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.
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