There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing.
BILL MURRAYOne of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
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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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You cannot pray them out of hell.
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People say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
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The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that’s very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.
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I think we’re all sort of imprisoned by – or at least bound to – the choices we make… You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.
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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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When everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it’s terrible and amazing stuff.
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Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
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While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
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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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I act like a jerk sometimes.
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Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
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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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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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Every moment that you share someone else’s pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.
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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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I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.
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We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that’s part of your obligation.
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People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
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Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I’m just telling everyone that it’s a wonderful place to go.
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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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You say, “Do you want a piece of this movie?” And he’s got to sell this movie to get his money back. That’s the brains of it; that’s the genius of this financing. “You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you’ve got Germany.”
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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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Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.
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I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
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Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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