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.
BILL MURRAYWell, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn’t here yet, whatever it’s going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That’s it.
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They are getting so much smoke blown, and their whole world gets so turned upside down, their responses become distorted. I give everybody a year or two to pull it together because, when it first happens, I know how it is.
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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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Disneyland. The world’s biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
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Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.
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Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
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You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
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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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Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
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Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
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I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song ‘Love the One You’re With’; there is something to that. It’s not just make love to whomever you’re with, it’s just love whomever you’re with.
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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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I think all phases of one’s career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
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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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Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
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Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
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