Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.
BILL MURRAYThere’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song ‘Love the One You’re With’; there is something to that. It’s not just make love to whomever you’re with, it’s just love whomever you’re with.
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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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I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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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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You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
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I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.
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It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
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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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My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, ‘That’s it-let’s get the hell outta here.’
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You want my dark side? Have I ever stolen anything? Not so much intentionally. But I don’t think it’s so much stealing as… being a part of the flow of the universe.
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I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.
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Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it’s usually something unusual.
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If Google doesn’t know the answer, then it’s not a question
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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.
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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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