I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.
BILL MURRAYIf I run into someone on the street, that’s one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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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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The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that’s very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.
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Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.
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I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you’ve got to study, and that wasn’t going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn’t going to work.
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All parties are good.
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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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Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
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The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.
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I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
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Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
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My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, ‘That’s it-let’s get the hell outta here.’
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You cannot pray them out of hell.
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The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
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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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This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
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You’re supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you’re trying to going up, you’re trying to pull someone up at the same time.
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I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.
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If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it’s not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You’ve got to keep the energy up.
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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’m not an ungenerous person; I don’t resent it. It’s just sort of a head-scratcher.
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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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They are getting so much smoke blown, and their whole world gets so turned upside down, their responses become distorted. I give everybody a year or two to pull it together because, when it first happens, I know how it is.
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Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
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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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Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it’s Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.
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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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