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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.

Bill Murray

You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
BILL MURRAY

Good Knows
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.
BILL MURRAY

Although Better Change Made Realize
Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
BILL MURRAY

Actors Chicago Self
This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
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Dresses Rehearsal
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.
BILL MURRAY

Oliver Right Stocked Unbelievable
I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
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Know Sour Taste
It’s much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.
BILL MURRAY

Cake Guy Play
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.
BILL MURRAY

Feet Men White
Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like, ‘Yep, I like this one,’ and you just do stuff with them.
BILL MURRAY

Friendship New Stuff
Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it’s usually something unusual.
BILL MURRAY

Stripes Underwear Unusual
I’m just a potato that won’t quit. I’m a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I’ve got legs.
BILL MURRAY

Eye Legs Potatoes
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.
BILL MURRAY

Frighten People Rattle Supercharged
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.
BILL MURRAY

Body Light Trying
In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can’t help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They’re very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you’re there.
BILL MURRAY

Country Helping Ideas
People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You’re new and you’re hot and things go wrong.
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Hot People Successful
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?”
BILL MURRAY

Anything Bud Else Grinding

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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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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