And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, ‘Oh! You’re gonna be the mayor?’ And I hadn’t even read the script yet.
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More Bill Murray Quotes
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To people who want to be rich and famous, I’d say, “Get rich first and see if that doesn’t cover it.”
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Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
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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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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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Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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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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I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.
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When I feel like I’m stuck, I do something – not like I’m Mother Teresa or anything, but there’s someone that’s forgotten about in your life, all the time. Someone that could use an ‘Attaboy’ or a ‘How you doin’ out there.
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You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. […] That’s the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you’ll actually witness, that you’ll participate in.
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That’s the reason I’m not the one that’s dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
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If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say ‘Did you just see what I saw?!’, you’ll find that no-one wants to talk to you.
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You work, you get paid, you drink.
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All parties are good.
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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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I don’t know what my fans are going to think. It’s definitely not what they’re used to from me.
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