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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More Bill Murray Quotes
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You have to be as light as you can be, and you don’t have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.
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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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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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Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.
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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’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 can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
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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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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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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 really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.
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It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
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Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.
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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 more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
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