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The only good thing about fame that I’ve gotten is I’ve gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I’ve gotten into a restaurant when I didn’t have a suit and tie on. That’s really about it.

Bill Murray

I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
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Know Sour Taste
I don’t know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn’t know how much money I was making.
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Guy How Know Making Money
Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
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Actors Chicago Self
Buddy Hackett [was] talking – this is Hackett, not me – about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families … the look of absolute horror.
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Anything Children Say Talking
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.
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Feet Men White
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.
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Home Reminding Way Yourself
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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Day Girl Good Sunset
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.
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Cake Guy Play
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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Life Obligation Score
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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Harder Scripts Writing
The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You’ve got to give them a year and a half, two years.
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Ass Famous Giving Two Years
I’d sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.
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Different Gone Spiritual
I’m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do.
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Charming Guy Pay
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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Director Headed Heck Success Whole
You’re supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you’re trying to going up, you’re trying to pull someone up at the same time.
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Hands Suppose Trying
When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don’t like to have a situation placed over my head.
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Chance Jobs Phones
To people who want to be rich and famous, I’d say, “Get rich first and see if that doesn’t cover it.”
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Firsts People Want
And even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we win! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field.
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Children Girls Heads Men Noses
Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it’s usually something unusual.
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Stripes Underwear Unusual
So far, I’ve only sailed in the Caribbean. I’ve sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted some really crummy boats in the Grenadines. That made for an exciting sailing trip (laughs) when everything goes well.
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Exciting Islands Laughing Rip
It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
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Anything Artist Hard
I would jump into the middle of the street and say, “excuse me, there’s a Mercedes that’s got to get through here.” And I would push people out of the way, “get out of the way! Let him through!” Smacking their cars and stuff. Just like, “whack” and you just jump into it.
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Cars People Stuff
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
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Honesty Music Truth
There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
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Crazy Jobs People
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.
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Acting Actors Thinking
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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Country Helping Ideas
And I say, ‘Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.’ And he says, ‘Oh, uh, there won’t be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.’ So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.
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Effort Money Nice

The only good thing about fame that I’ve gotten is I’ve gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I’ve gotten into a restaurant when I didn’t have a suit and tie on. That’s really about it.

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The only good thing about fame that I’ve gotten is I’ve gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I’ve gotten into a restaurant when I didn’t have a suit and tie on. That’s really about it.

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