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.”
BILL MURRAYWhen 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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When I started, the scripts weren’t as good, and you’d have to have a huge burst of energy to go, “Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff’s no good.”
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You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
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Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
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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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Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage – I had to bury myself in my napkin.
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Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me.
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Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
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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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Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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Be available for life to happen.
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One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
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While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
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The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.
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Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, ‘That would be interesting.’ Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.
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