The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You’ve got to give them a year and a half, two years.
BILL MURRAYTo people who want to be rich and famous, I’d say, “Get rich first and see if that doesn’t cover it.”
More Bill Murray Quotes
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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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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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You know…they say an elephant never forgets. What they don’t tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
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I don’t know what my fans are going to think. It’s definitely not what they’re used to from me.
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Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
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Okay, let’s pick a date. Let’s plan this and make a party and get married.’ Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world.
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And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don’t have to feel that way. You feel like the script’s coming to you, you can just relax. You don’t have to drive the boat.
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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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Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it’s Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.
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The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
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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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That’s the reason I’m not the one that’s dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
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So you’d have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining?
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Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
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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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Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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I’m over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you’re in trouble. It’s like wanting to be married – you’ll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I’ve seen it.
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If Google doesn’t know the answer, then it’s not a question
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Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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You say, “Do you want a piece of this movie?” And he’s got to sell this movie to get his money back. That’s the brains of it; that’s the genius of this financing. “You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you’ve got Germany.”
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People say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
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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 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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Disneyland. The world’s biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
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So far, I’ve only sailed in the Caribbean. I’ve sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted some really crummy boats in the Grenadines. That made for an exciting sailing trip (laughs) when everything goes well.
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