The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
BILL MURRAYYou 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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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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I’m not an ungenerous person; I don’t resent it. It’s just sort of a head-scratcher.
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No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
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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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We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
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But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything – your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.
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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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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.
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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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Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You’re new and you’re hot and things go wrong.
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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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Eh, it’s not that attractive to have a plan. I know that if I ever feel that I need to make a funny movie, I’ll figure out how to write one. I’ll get it done. If I ever get some ambition, I’m gonna get some shit done.
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If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it’s not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You’ve got to keep the energy up.
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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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