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Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.

Bill Murray

People say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
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Badges People Sometimes
Be available for life to happen.
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Available Happens Life
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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Careers Pieces Thinking
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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Country Home Travel
When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I’m just trying to make the sound guy laugh, the script supervisor.
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Golf Jobs Laughing
If I run into someone on the street, that’s one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.
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Fun Jobs Running
I would jump into the middle of the street and say, “excuse me, there’s a Mercedes that’s got to get through here.” And I would push people out of the way, “get out of the way! Let him through!” Smacking their cars and stuff. Just like, “whack” and you just jump into it.
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Cars People Stuff
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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Distorted Everybody Response Smoke Together
My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, ‘That’s it-let’s get the hell outta here.’
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Acting Award Winning
Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like, ‘Yep, I like this one,’ and you just do stuff with them.
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Friendship New Stuff
And 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.
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Cities might Son
Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage – I had to bury myself in my napkin.
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Buy Damage Everybody Napkin
The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.
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Forget Hell Interesting Mean Women
Now, for some of you it doesn’t matter. You were born rich and you’re going to stay rich. But here’s my advice to the rest of you.
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Advice Boys Matter Some
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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Gift Girl Mean Nice Paper Wrapping
And I say, ‘Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.’ And he says, ‘Oh, uh, there won’t be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.’ So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.
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Effort Money Nice
Zombies dont mess with other zombies.
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Mess Other Zombie
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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Country Helping Ideas
One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
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Acting Myself Way
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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Kids Names Numbers
Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me.
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Frighten People Rattle Supercharged
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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Eye Legs Potatoes
I knew that’s where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn’t make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship.
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Country Directors Want
All of us kids ended up ‘doing Mom.’ There are four of us who’ve tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
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Dance Kids Mom
Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
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Golf Kids Play
Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
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Day Kissing Necks
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
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Acting Awards Campaigns

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