The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.
BILL MURRAYWhen everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it’s terrible and amazing stuff.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
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The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that’s very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.
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The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.
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And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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I think we’re all sort of imprisoned by – or at least bound to – the choices we make… You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.
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Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I’m just telling everyone that it’s a wonderful place to go.
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If Google doesn’t know the answer, then it’s not a question
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I 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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Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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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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Be available for life to happen.
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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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One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
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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.
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They are getting so much smoke blown, and their whole world gets so turned upside down, their responses become distorted. I give everybody a year or two to pull it together because, when it first happens, I know how it is.
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Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
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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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This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
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Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
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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.
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That’s the reason I’m not the one that’s dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
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We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that’s part of your obligation.
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You say, “Do you want a piece of this movie?” And he’s got to sell this movie to get his money back. That’s the brains of it; that’s the genius of this financing. “You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you’ve got Germany.”
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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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Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage – I had to bury myself in my napkin.
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I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money. (Something else can’t hear.)
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