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One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

Bill Murray

I think all phases of one’s career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
BILL MURRAY

Careers Pieces Thinking
Eh, it’s not that attractive to have a plan. I know that if I ever feel that I need to make a funny movie, I’ll figure out how to write one. I’ll get it done. If I ever get some ambition, I’m gonna get some shit done.
BILL MURRAY

Attractive Movie Need Plans
Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
BILL MURRAY

Cat Dog Sacrifice
I’m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do.
BILL MURRAY

Charming Guy Pay
When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I’m just trying to make the sound guy laugh, the script supervisor.
BILL MURRAY

Golf Jobs Laughing
You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Cells People
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.
BILL MURRAY

Country Directors Want
Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
BILL MURRAY

Awards Day Groundhog Script
People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You’re new and you’re hot and things go wrong.
BILL MURRAY

Hot People Successful
Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it’s usually something unusual.
BILL MURRAY

Stripes Underwear Unusual
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.
BILL MURRAY

Different Gone Spiritual
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.
BILL MURRAY

Life Obligation Score
You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
BILL MURRAY

Adventure Common Sense Whiskey
I’m over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you’re in trouble. It’s like wanting to be married – you’ll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I’ve seen it.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Ambition Desire
I’m not an ungenerous person; I don’t resent it. It’s just sort of a head-scratcher.
BILL MURRAY

Persons Resent Scratcher
You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
BILL MURRAY

Good Knows

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

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