You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
BILL MURRAYSo you’d have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining?
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Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
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There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
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I didn’t get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.
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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.
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When I started, the scripts weren’t as good, and you’d have to have a huge burst of energy to go, “Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff’s no good.”
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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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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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Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me.
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Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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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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While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
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And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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I’m not an ungenerous person; I don’t resent it. It’s just sort of a head-scratcher.
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And even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we win! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field.
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I try to be available for life to happen to me. We’re in this life, and if you’re not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you’re available, life gets huge. You’re really living it.
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