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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.

Bill Murray

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
The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who’s actually doing the distribution in France.
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Giving Guy Independent
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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Day Groundhog Stripes Together
I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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Bars Guy Want
So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I’ve ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up – motley isn’t the word for that group.
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Critics Group Introduced Stood World
You have to be as light as you can be, and you don’t have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.
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Body Elevate Emotions Something
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
Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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Awards Day Groundhog Script
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
I don’t know what my fans are going to think. It’s definitely not what they’re used to from me.
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Fans Thinking Used
Somewhere there’s a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.
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Life Obligation Score
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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Acting Needs Suits
When I started, the scripts weren’t as good, and you’d have to have a huge burst of energy to go, “Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff’s no good.”
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Energy Everything Relax Trying Visual
You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba.
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Acting Cells People
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
And go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if when you come back to JFK, when you land in JFK, and you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport.
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Airport Back Come Married Person

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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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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