I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you’ve got to study, and that wasn’t going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn’t going to work.
BILL MURRAYI think midlife crisis is just a point where people’s careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.
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My back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
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I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
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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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That’s sort of why I got into acting. I realized the more fun I had, the better I did it. And I thought, that’s a job I could be proud of. It’s changed my life learning that, and it’s made me better at what I do.
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If we don’t get this done, we’re never going to be friends, because if we don’t get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed.”
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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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Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
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Every moment that you share someone else’s pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.
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Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
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I’d sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.
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The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who’s actually doing the distribution in France.
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There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing.
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Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
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The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
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I’m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do.
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