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.
BILL MURRAYYou can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
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Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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I would jump into the middle of the street and say, “excuse me, there’s a Mercedes that’s got to get through here.” And I would push people out of the way, “get out of the way! Let him through!” Smacking their cars and stuff. Just like, “whack” and you just jump into it.
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You have to be as light as you can be, and you don’t have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.
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Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
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I’m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do.
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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.
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Buddy Hackett [was] talking – this is Hackett, not me – about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families … the look of absolute horror.
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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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Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, ‘That would be interesting.’ Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.
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The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who’s actually doing the distribution in France.
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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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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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We’re Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
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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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