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 MURRAYEvery day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
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Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
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One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
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I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.
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You cannot pray them out of hell.
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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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But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything – your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.
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The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.
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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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Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.
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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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My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.
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I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren’s dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.
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I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
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