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The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.

Bill Murray

People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
BILL MURRAY

Honesty Music Truth
I knew that’s where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn’t make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship.
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Country Directors Want
I’m not an ungenerous person; I don’t resent it. It’s just sort of a head-scratcher.
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Persons Resent Scratcher
Okay, let’s pick a date. Let’s plan this and make a party and get married.’ Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world.
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Date Make Party Pick Travel
Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I’m just telling everyone that it’s a wonderful place to go.
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Get Go Money Morocco Places
I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
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Know Sour Taste
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
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.)
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Director Headed Heck Success Whole
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.
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Acting People World
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
People confuse friendship and relaxation. It’s incredibly important to be relaxed – you don’t have a chance if you’re not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different.
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Important People Relaxation
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
Here’s the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don’t get there, we’re both fired.
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Downsizing Faster Fired
When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I’m just trying to make the sound guy laugh, the script supervisor.
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Golf Jobs Laughing
The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
BILL MURRAY

Critics Reason Right Wrong
I think midlife crisis is just a point where people’s careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.
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Careers People Relationships Thinking
I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.
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Day Groundhog Groundhogs
The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.
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Kids Names Numbers
I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
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Funny Insanity Nuts
Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
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Errors Otherwise Thinking
If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just sort of think in your ordinary mind, ‘
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Love Party Thinking
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
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Acting Awards Campaigns
I think we’re all sort of imprisoned by – or at least bound to – the choices we make… You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.
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Choices Thinking Want
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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Body Light Trying
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 automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
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Better Keep Needs Things
I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song ‘Love the One You’re With’; there is something to that. It’s not just make love to whomever you’re with, it’s just love whomever you’re with.
BILL MURRAY

Romance Song Thinking

The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.

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