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BILL MURRAYWhenever 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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My back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
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Disneyland. The world’s biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
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You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. […] That’s the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you’ll actually witness, that you’ll participate in.
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People say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
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People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
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The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.
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The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that’s very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.
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I don’t answer fan mail. I don’t have time for that. It’s like hundreds of thousands of people who think they’re going to become millionaires getting autographs from movie actors. I don’t have time for those idiots. I’ve got stuff to do.
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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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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.
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I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.
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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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To people who want to be rich and famous, I’d say, “Get rich first and see if that doesn’t cover it.”
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I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.
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I’ve been lucky, I’ve had movies that made a lot of money, so I don’t feel like I have to kill every time out. I don’t want that pressure. I don’t need it.
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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.
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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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Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
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Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
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All parties are good.
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I think we’re all sort of imprisoned by – or at least bound to – the choices we make… You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.
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Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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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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Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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If Google doesn’t know the answer, then it’s not a question
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You don’t have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don’t need a giant crew. It’s great.
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