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I didn’t get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

Bill Murray

Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
BILL MURRAY

Actors Chicago Self
Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
BILL MURRAY

Crash Knows People
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Awards Campaigns
We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
BILL MURRAY

Cherries Ice Cream Syrup
Like: ‘Don’t walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there’s somethin’ in there you’re going to bring out.’ You gotta commit. You’ve gotta go out there and improvise and you’ve gotta be completely unafraid to die.
BILL MURRAY

Able Die Hands Pockets
Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.
BILL MURRAY

Day Groundhog Stripes Together
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.
BILL MURRAY

Baseball Fall Kids
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
I don’t know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn’t know how much money I was making.
BILL MURRAY

Guy How Know Making Money
People say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
BILL MURRAY

Badges People Sometimes
You can’t think about what you’re going to do. It just gets in the way. You have to be just available for life, otherwise you’re not bringing anything to the party. So I don’t lie awake thinking about what I’m going to do workwise. There’s just too much going on.
BILL MURRAY

Lying Party Thinking
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.
BILL MURRAY

Crazy Jobs People
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
When everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it’s terrible and amazing stuff.
BILL MURRAY

Amazing Diesel Organism Stuff
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?
BILL MURRAY

Day Girl Good Sunset
Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
BILL MURRAY

Every Day Helicopter Studio Talking

I didn’t get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

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