If you have a good script, that’s what gets you involved. It’s harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
BILL MURRAYAnd 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.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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The only good thing about fame that I’ve gotten is I’ve gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I’ve gotten into a restaurant when I didn’t have a suit and tie on. That’s really about it.
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In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can’t help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They’re very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you’re there.
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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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He’s going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It’s just total horror, and the camera’s still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, “Anything else, Bud?”
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You know…they say an elephant never forgets. What they don’t tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
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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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Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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I don’t feel like it’s pressure. It’s more of an obligation – not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there’s got to be a lightness in your leg.
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No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
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I’m just a potato that won’t quit. I’m a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I’ve got legs.
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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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Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
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I don’t know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn’t know how much money I was making.
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This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
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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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