The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.
BILL MURRAYWhen 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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Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
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When everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it’s terrible and amazing stuff.
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Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.
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I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
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If Google doesn’t know the answer, then it’s not a question
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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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I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that’s it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I’d done something.
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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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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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You don’t have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don’t need a giant crew. It’s great.
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I’ve got kids and that’s important. It’s funny, you think that there’s an expiration date on them and there just isn’t.
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I think all phases of one’s career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
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It’s much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.
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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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Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
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