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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

There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing.
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Couple Kids Kitchen
If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just sort of think in your ordinary mind, ‘
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Love Party Thinking
You cannot pray them out of hell.
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Hell Praying Scary
People say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
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Badges People Sometimes
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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Buying Car Mother
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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Choices Thinking Want
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
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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Amazing Diesel Organism Stuff
Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
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Get Real Sometimes Tired
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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Father Lonely Mother
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
I act like a jerk sometimes.
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Act Jerks Like Sometimes
Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
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Deep Dying Humor Thought
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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Life Powerful Reason
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
Every moment that you share someone else’s pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.
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Moments Pain Share
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
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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Award Country Years
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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Giving Life Live Lonely
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
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Honesty Music Truth
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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Get Go Money Morocco Places
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
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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Back Country Financing Money Movie
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
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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Half People Years
I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
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Know Sour Taste
Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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Automatic Needs Vacation

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

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