To people who want to be rich and famous, I’d say, “Get rich first and see if that doesn’t cover it.”
BILL MURRAYI was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn’t I get that day over and over and over?
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You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
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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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Buddy Hackett [was] talking – this is Hackett, not me – about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families … the look of absolute horror.
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I don’t know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn’t know how much money I was making.
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Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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Somewhere there’s a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.
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I’ve got kids and that’s important. It’s funny, you think that there’s an expiration date on them and there just isn’t.
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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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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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When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don’t like to have a situation placed over my head.
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Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
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The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.
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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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When you see grown men near to tears because they’ve missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
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I’m not an ungenerous person; I don’t resent it. It’s just sort of a head-scratcher.
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