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I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.

Bill Murray

Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it’s Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.
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Best Happened Part Remembering
Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like, ‘Yep, I like this one,’ and you just do stuff with them.
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Friendship New Stuff
Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
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Day Kissing Necks
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
Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
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Deep Dying Humor Thought
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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Energy Fun People
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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Cake Guy Play
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
And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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Like Work Working
I’m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do.
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Charming Guy Pay
I don’t feel like it’s pressure. It’s more of an obligation – not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there’s got to be a lightness in your leg.
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Light Mean Trying
If I run into someone on the street, that’s one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.
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Fun Jobs Running
There aren’t many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that’s a 24 hour job right there.
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Acting Asking Jobs
I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.
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Day Groundhog Groundhogs
I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
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Funny Insanity Nuts
The cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That’s kind of what it’s like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.
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Angry People Pop Thousand
The first year I had money, I really went shopping. I got really caught up in it. I bought all my brothers sets of luggage, and I bought ’em winter coats from Giorgio Armani – winter coats. And I got a pair of socks from this brother.
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Brother Winter Years
You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
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Adventure Common Sense Whiskey
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
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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Acting Needs Suits
The set is stocked with Victorian extras and little children in Oliver kind of outfits, and the director says, “All right, Bud – just give it whatever you want.” And Hackett goes off on a rant. Unbelievably obscene.
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Oliver Right Stocked Unbelievable
Zombies dont mess with other zombies.
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Mess Other Zombie
The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.
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Lasts Roles Want
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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Acting Cells People
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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Careers People Relationships Thinking
When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that’s why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn’t fall asleep. That gift I have still.
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Baseball Fall Kids
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.
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Acting Ambition Desire

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