They are getting so much smoke blown, and their whole world gets so turned upside down, their responses become distorted. I give everybody a year or two to pull it together because, when it first happens, I know how it is.
BILL MURRAYI’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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Disneyland. The world’s biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
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You know…they say an elephant never forgets. What they don’t tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
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People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
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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.
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The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.
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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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Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
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So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I’ve ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up – motley isn’t the word for that group.
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And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money. (Something else can’t hear.)
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The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You’ve got to give them a year and a half, two years.
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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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The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who’s actually doing the distribution in France.
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The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.
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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.
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