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I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that’s it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I’d done something.

Bill Murray

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
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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Award Country Years
The set is stocked with Victorian extras and little children in Oliver kind of outfits, and the director says, “All right, Bud – just give it whatever you want.” And Hackett goes off on a rant. Unbelievably obscene.
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Oliver Right Stocked Unbelievable
The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.
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Home Reminding Way Yourself
Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
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Get Real Sometimes Tired
When you see grown men near to tears because they’ve missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
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Feet Men White
Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
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Being Hardest Jobs Yourself
You work, you get paid, you drink.
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Drink Get Paid
Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn’t here yet, whatever it’s going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That’s it.
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Future Gone Past Wells
Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
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Errors Otherwise Thinking
Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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Crash Knows People
Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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Alcohol Liquid Photoshop
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
Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
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Fields Shows Standards
This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
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Dresses Rehearsal
The cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That’s kind of what it’s like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.
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Angry People Pop Thousand
One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
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Acting Myself Way
Be available for life to happen.
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Available Happens Life
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.
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Distorted Everybody Response Smoke Together
Different vodkas have different effects. Some make you feel a little… poly-lingual. Some make you feel like you want to talk back to someone who’s giving you a hard time. Some make you feel like lifting kettle bells.
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Giving Hard Times Want
And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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Like Work Working
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?
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Day Girl Good Sunset
I’m just a potato that won’t quit. I’m a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I’ve got legs.
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Eye Legs Potatoes
If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it’s not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You’ve got to keep the energy up.
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Energy Fun People
I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren’s dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.
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Book Dog Real
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
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Honesty Music Truth
Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It’s so challenging to live, and the people are so close among their own tribes, their own groups, that you can’t rule them all, you can’t get an accord from all of them.
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Challenge Country People

I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that’s it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I’d done something.

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I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that’s it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I’d done something.

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