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Bill Murray

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
I knew that’s where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn’t make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship.
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Country Directors Want
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
You know…they say an elephant never forgets. What they don’t tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
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Elephants Forget never
I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that’s it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I’d done something.
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Home Month Mustache
Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It’s so challenging to live, and the people are so close among their own tribes, their own groups, that you can’t rule them all, you can’t get an accord from all of them.
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Challenge Country People
The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.
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Lasts Roles Want
Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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Alcohol Liquid Photoshop
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.
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Frighten People Rattle Supercharged
All parties are good.
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Good Party
I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
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Know Sour Taste
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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Country People Thinking
My back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
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Four Hurt Legs
Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
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Every Day Helicopter Studio Talking
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
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Comedian Jobs Work
The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.
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Army Feet Humorous
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
Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
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Day Kissing Necks
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
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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Acting Needs Suits
You have to be as light as you can be, and you don’t have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.
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Body Elevate Emotions Something
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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Able Die Hands Pockets
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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Ordinary Past Trying
So you’d have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining?
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Entertaining Figure Something Visually
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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Couple Suits Ties
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
We’re Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
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Country Home Travel

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