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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.

Bill Murray

Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
BILL MURRAY

Errors Otherwise Thinking
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Awards Campaigns
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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Frighten People Rattle Supercharged
The set is stocked with Victorian extras and little children in Oliver kind of outfits, and the director says, “All right, Bud – just give it whatever you want.” And Hackett goes off on a rant. Unbelievably obscene.
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Oliver Right Stocked Unbelievable
Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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Automatic Needs Vacation
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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Energy Everything Relax Trying Visual
I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.
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Award Country Years
You work, you get paid, you drink.
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Drink Get Paid
You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow.
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Body Light Trying
People say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
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Badges People Sometimes
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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Firsts People Want
My back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
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Four Hurt Legs
There’s definitely a lot of trash that comes with the prize of being famous. It’s a nice gift, but there’s a lot of wrapping and paper and junk to cut through.
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Gift Girl Mean Nice Paper Wrapping
When you see grown men near to tears because they’ve missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
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Feet Men White
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.
BILL MURRAY

Coming Nowadays Relax Scripts
You 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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Acting Cells People
The only good thing about fame that I’ve gotten is I’ve gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I’ve gotten into a restaurant when I didn’t have a suit and tie on. That’s really about it.
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Couple Suits Ties
Somewhere there’s a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.
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Life Obligation Score
You cannot pray them out of hell.
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Hell Praying Scary
You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. […] That’s the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you’ll actually witness, that you’ll participate in.
BILL MURRAY

Monday Over Rolling You
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.
BILL MURRAY

Girlfriend Interesting Thinking
And even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we win! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field.
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Children Girls Heads Men Noses
Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.
BILL MURRAY

Day Groundhog Stripes Together
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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Father Lonely Mother
I act like a jerk sometimes.
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Act Jerks Like Sometimes
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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Important Kids Thinking
I’ve been lucky, I’ve had movies that made a lot of money, so I don’t feel like I have to kill every time out. I don’t want that pressure. I don’t need it.
BILL MURRAY

Lucky Needs Want

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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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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