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 MURRAYNow, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. – Stephen Leacockof Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
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Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don’t have to feel that way. You feel like the script’s coming to you, you can just relax. You don’t have to drive the boat.
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You can’t think about what you’re going to do. It just gets in the way. You have to be just available for life, otherwise you’re not bringing anything to the party. So I don’t lie awake thinking about what I’m going to do workwise. There’s just too much going on.
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The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.
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You work, you get paid, you drink.
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The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.
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There’s definitely a lot of trash that comes with the prize of being famous. It’s a nice gift, but there’s a lot of wrapping and paper and junk to cut through.
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Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage – I had to bury myself in my napkin.
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The set is stocked with Victorian extras and little children in Oliver kind of outfits, and the director says, “All right, Bud – just give it whatever you want.” And Hackett goes off on a rant. Unbelievably obscene.
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Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
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I think midlife crisis is just a point where people’s careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.
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I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
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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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Like: ‘Don’t walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there’s somethin’ in there you’re going to bring out.’ You gotta commit. You’ve gotta go out there and improvise and you’ve gotta be completely unafraid to die.
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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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