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

Bill Murray

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
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
Eh, it’s not that attractive to have a plan. I know that if I ever feel that I need to make a funny movie, I’ll figure out how to write one. I’ll get it done. If I ever get some ambition, I’m gonna get some shit done.
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Attractive Movie Need Plans
I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.
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Intuition Knows Mouths
He’s going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It’s just total horror, and the camera’s still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, “Anything else, Bud?”
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Anything Bud Else Grinding
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 atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.
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Atheist Easter Friday
Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it’s usually something unusual.
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Stripes Underwear Unusual
The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.
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Army Feet Humorous
The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.
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Lasts Roles Want
Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
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Actors Chicago Self
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
Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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Crash Knows People
I don’t believe that you can give the same performance every take. It’s physically impossible, so why bother? If you don’t do what is happening at that moment, then it’s not real. Then you’re holding something back.
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Believe Giving Real
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.
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Acting Actors Thinking
Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don’t have to feel that way. You feel like the script’s coming to you, you can just relax. You don’t have to drive the boat.
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Coming Nowadays Relax Scripts
The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
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Critics Reason Right Wrong
The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.
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Forget Hell Interesting Mean Women
Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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Awards Day Groundhog Script
I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.
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Being Different Everbody Girl Mean
You know…they say an elephant never forgets. What they don’t tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
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Elephants Forget never
There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
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Crazy Jobs People
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
It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
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Anything Artist Hard
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
You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
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Boring Eye Phones
My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, ‘That’s it-let’s get the hell outta here.’
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Acting Award Winning

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