I don’t feel like it’s pressure. It’s more of an obligation – not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there’s got to be a lightness in your leg.
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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Be available for life to happen.
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I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.
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All parties are good.
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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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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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Somewhere there’s a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.
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If you have a good script, that’s what gets you involved. It’s harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
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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.
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Now, for some of you it doesn’t matter. You were born rich and you’re going to stay rich. But here’s my advice to the rest of you.
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Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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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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Disneyland. The world’s biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
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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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This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
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Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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