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.
BILL MURRAYIf you have a good script, that’s what gets you involved. It’s harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
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You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. […] That’s the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you’ll actually witness, that you’ll participate in.
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I don’t know what my fans are going to think. It’s definitely not what they’re used to from me.
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People confuse friendship and relaxation. It’s incredibly important to be relaxed – you don’t have a chance if you’re not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different.
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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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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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Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
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I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
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Like: ‘Don’t walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there’s somethin’ in there you’re going to bring out.’ You gotta commit. You’ve gotta go out there and improvise and you’ve gotta be completely unafraid to die.
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Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
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Zombies dont mess with other zombies.
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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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The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
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Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
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