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I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.

Bill Murray

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Needs Suits
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.
BILL MURRAY

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.
BILL MURRAY

Believe Giving Real
When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that’s why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn’t fall asleep. That gift I have still.
BILL MURRAY

Baseball Fall Kids
Be available for life to happen.
BILL MURRAY

Available Happens Life
I’d sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.
BILL MURRAY

Different Gone Spiritual
The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.
BILL MURRAY

Forget Hell Interesting Mean Women
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.
BILL MURRAY

Couple Suits Ties
I don’t know what my fans are going to think. It’s definitely not what they’re used to from me.
BILL MURRAY

Fans Thinking Used
You want my dark side? Have I ever stolen anything? Not so much intentionally. But I don’t think it’s so much stealing as… being a part of the flow of the universe.
BILL MURRAY

Dark Negative Thinking
Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
BILL MURRAY

Day Kissing Necks
Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can’t buy backbone. Don’t let them forget it. Thank you.
BILL MURRAY

Crosshairs Remember Take Thank
To people who want to be rich and famous, I’d say, “Get rich first and see if that doesn’t cover it.”
BILL MURRAY

Firsts People Want
You cannot pray them out of hell.
BILL MURRAY

Hell Praying Scary
Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
BILL MURRAY

Crash Knows People
People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You’re new and you’re hot and things go wrong.
BILL MURRAY

Hot People Successful

I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.

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