I’d like [Santa Claus] to give Wes Anderson, the director, enough money in his next budget for an aerial shot – just a little copter shot. He really wanted this one helicopter shot, and Disney wouldn’t give him the money. Just wouldn’t give him the money.
BILL MURRAYMy back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
More Bill Murray Quotes
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People say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
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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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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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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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Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me.
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You cannot pray them out of hell.
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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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Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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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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I try to be available for life to happen to me. We’re in this life, and if you’re not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you’re available, life gets huge. You’re really living it.
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Here’s the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don’t get there, we’re both fired.
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I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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I didn’t get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.
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Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
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