I don’t believe that you can give the same performance every take. It’s physically impossible, so why bother? If you don’t do what is happening at that moment, then it’s not real. Then you’re holding something back.
BILL MURRAYYou don’t have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don’t need a giant crew. It’s great.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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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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Somewhere there’s a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.
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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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If we don’t get this done, we’re never going to be friends, because if we don’t get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed.”
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You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
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You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
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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 the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don’t like to have a situation placed over my head.
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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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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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He’s going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It’s just total horror, and the camera’s still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, “Anything else, Bud?”
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Every moment that you share someone else’s pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.
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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’m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do.
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Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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