Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
BILL MURRAYI mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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You want my dark side? Have I ever stolen anything? Not so much intentionally. But I don’t think it’s so much stealing as… being a part of the flow of the universe.
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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. – Stephen Leacockof Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.
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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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The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.
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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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I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.
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And even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we win! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field.
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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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My back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
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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.
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People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You’re new and you’re hot and things go wrong.
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I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.
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I’ve got kids and that’s important. It’s funny, you think that there’s an expiration date on them and there just isn’t.
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It’s much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.
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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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