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.
BILL MURRAYThat’s the reason I’m not the one that’s dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
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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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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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That’s the reason I’m not the one that’s dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
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I’d sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.
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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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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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Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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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.
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I think midlife crisis is just a point where people’s careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.
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And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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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.
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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.
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So you’d have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining?
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We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
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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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