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This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.

Bill Murray

My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, ‘That’s it-let’s get the hell outta here.’
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Acting Award Winning
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
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Acting Awards Campaigns
Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
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Golf Kids Play
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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Downsizing Faster Fired
To people who want to be rich and famous, I’d say, “Get rich first and see if that doesn’t cover it.”
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Firsts People Want
Be available for life to happen.
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Available Happens Life
I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that’s it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I’d done something.
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Home Month Mustache
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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Believe Giving Real
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.
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Directors Giving Talking
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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Acting Actors Thinking
You’re supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you’re trying to going up, you’re trying to pull someone up at the same time.
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Hands Suppose Trying
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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Ass Famous Giving Two Years
The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
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Critics Reason Right Wrong
Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
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Actors Chicago Self
People say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
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Badges People Sometimes
If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it’s not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You’ve got to keep the energy up.
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Energy Fun People

This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.

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