You can’t think about what you’re going to do. It just gets in the way. You have to be just available for life, otherwise you’re not bringing anything to the party. So I don’t lie awake thinking about what I’m going to do workwise. There’s just too much going on.
BILL MURRAYNow, 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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Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn’t here yet, whatever it’s going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That’s it.
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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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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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If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say ‘Did you just see what I saw?!’, you’ll find that no-one wants to talk to you.
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I’d like [Santa Claus] to give Wes Anderson, the director, enough money in his next budget for an aerial shot – just a little copter shot. He really wanted this one helicopter shot, and Disney wouldn’t give him the money. Just wouldn’t give him the money.
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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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I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money. (Something else can’t hear.)
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The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.
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Here’s the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don’t get there, we’re both fired.
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Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage – I had to bury myself in my napkin.
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Be available for life to happen.
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If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just sort of think in your ordinary mind, ‘
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There aren’t many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that’s a 24 hour job right there.
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The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.
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If you have a good script, that’s what gets you involved. It’s harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
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