Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don’t have to feel that way. You feel like the script’s coming to you, you can just relax. You don’t have to drive the boat.
BILL MURRAYThe automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
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You don’t have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don’t need a giant crew. It’s great.
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It’s much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.
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You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
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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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You say, “Do you want a piece of this movie?” And he’s got to sell this movie to get his money back. That’s the brains of it; that’s the genius of this financing. “You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you’ve got Germany.”
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Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it’s usually something unusual.
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I’m over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you’re in trouble. It’s like wanting to be married – you’ll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I’ve seen it.
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Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
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Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
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It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
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Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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All of us kids ended up ‘doing Mom.’ There are four of us who’ve tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
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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 mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.
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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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