People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You’re new and you’re hot and things go wrong.
BILL MURRAYThe last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.
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Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
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We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
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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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I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.
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The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.
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When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, “We’re not gonna be friends until we get this done.
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Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
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You say, “Do you want a piece of this movie?” And he’s got to sell this movie to get his money back. That’s the brains of it; that’s the genius of this financing. “You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you’ve got Germany.”
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You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow.
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Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
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Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage – I had to bury myself in my napkin.
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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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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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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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Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me.
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Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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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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Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
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One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
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I don’t know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn’t know how much money I was making.
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The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
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Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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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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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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The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.
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