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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More Bill Murray Quotes
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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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It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
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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’m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do.
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Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
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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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I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.
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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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Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
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I’m just a potato that won’t quit. I’m a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I’ve got legs.
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That’s sort of why I got into acting. I realized the more fun I had, the better I did it. And I thought, that’s a job I could be proud of. It’s changed my life learning that, and it’s made me better at what I do.
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If we don’t get this done, we’re never going to be friends, because if we don’t get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed.”
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We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
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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 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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Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
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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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I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
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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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If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just sort of think in your ordinary mind, ‘
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If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it’s not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You’ve got to keep the energy up.
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I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.
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Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don’t have to feel that way. You feel like the script’s coming to you, you can just relax. You don’t have to drive the boat.
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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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