There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing.
BILL MURRAYThat’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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Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
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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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He’s going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It’s just total horror, and the camera’s still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, “Anything else, Bud?”
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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.
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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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My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.
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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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Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn’t I get that day over and over and over?
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Disneyland. The world’s biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
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People say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
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I don’t answer fan mail. I don’t have time for that. It’s like hundreds of thousands of people who think they’re going to become millionaires getting autographs from movie actors. I don’t have time for those idiots. I’ve got stuff to do.
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If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just sort of think in your ordinary mind, ‘
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Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
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Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
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