I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.
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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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 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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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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The first year I had money, I really went shopping. I got really caught up in it. I bought all my brothers sets of luggage, and I bought ’em winter coats from Giorgio Armani – winter coats. And I got a pair of socks from this brother.
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We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that’s part of your obligation.
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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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If we don’t get this done, we’re never going to be friends, because if we don’t get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed.”
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Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
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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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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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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.
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You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
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I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.
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Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
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And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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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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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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People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
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When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, “We’re not gonna be friends until we get this done.
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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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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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You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba.
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My back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
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That’s sort of why I got into acting. I realized the more fun I had, the better I did it. And I thought, that’s a job I could be proud of. It’s changed my life learning that, and it’s made me better at what I do.
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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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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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