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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.

Bill Murray

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. – Stephen Leacockof Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.
BILL MURRAY

Believe Christmas Essence
The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
BILL MURRAY

Critics Reason Right Wrong
I try to be available for life to happen to me. We’re in this life, and if you’re not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you’re available, life gets huge. You’re really living it.
BILL MURRAY

Ordinary Past Trying
You can’t think about what you’re going to do. It just gets in the way. You have to be just available for life, otherwise you’re not bringing anything to the party. So I don’t lie awake thinking about what I’m going to do workwise. There’s just too much going on.
BILL MURRAY

Lying Party Thinking
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.
BILL MURRAY

Film Giants Needs
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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Golf Kids Play
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.
BILL MURRAY

Life Obligation Score
I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren’s dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.
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Book Dog Real
You work, you get paid, you drink.
BILL MURRAY

Drink Get Paid
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.”
BILL MURRAY

Energy Everything Relax Trying Visual
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.
BILL MURRAY

Couple Suits Ties
I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
BILL MURRAY

Know Sour Taste
I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
BILL MURRAY

Funny Insanity Nuts
I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
BILL MURRAY

Bars Guy Want
If I run into someone on the street, that’s one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.
BILL MURRAY

Fun Jobs Running
Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
BILL MURRAY

Every Day Helicopter Studio Talking

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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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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