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The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.

Bill Murray

If we don’t get this done, we’re never going to be friends, because if we don’t get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed.”
BILL MURRAY

Done Failed Friend Together
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.)
BILL MURRAY

Director Headed Heck Success Whole
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.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Ambition Desire
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.
BILL MURRAY

Light Mean Trying
I’d like [Santa Claus] to give Wes Anderson, the director, enough money in his next budget for an aerial shot – just a little copter shot. He really wanted this one helicopter shot, and Disney wouldn’t give him the money. Just wouldn’t give him the money.
BILL MURRAY

Directors Giving Talking
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.
BILL MURRAY

Buying Car Mother
You know…they say an elephant never forgets. What they don’t tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
BILL MURRAY

Elephants Forget never
Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
BILL MURRAY

Crash Knows People
So far, I’ve only sailed in the Caribbean. I’ve sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted some really crummy boats in the Grenadines. That made for an exciting sailing trip (laughs) when everything goes well.
BILL MURRAY

Exciting Islands Laughing Rip
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Actors Thinking
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.
BILL MURRAY

Anything Children Say Talking
Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.
BILL MURRAY

Acting People World
I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.
BILL MURRAY

Day Groundhog Groundhogs
Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
BILL MURRAY

Blood Giving Inspirational
You don’t have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don’t need a giant crew. It’s great.
BILL MURRAY

Film Giants Needs
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.
BILL MURRAY

Cake Guy Play

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