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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.

Bill Murray

Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
BILL MURRAY

Day Kissing Necks
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.’
BILL MURRAY

Acting Award Winning
Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
BILL MURRAY

Deep Dying Humor Thought
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.
BILL MURRAY

Chairs Folding Sitting
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.
BILL MURRAY

Distorted Everybody Response Smoke Together
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.
BILL MURRAY

Buying Car Mother
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.
BILL MURRAY

Monday Over Rolling You
If you have a good script, that’s what gets you involved. It’s harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
BILL MURRAY

Harder Scripts Writing
Buddy Hackett [was] talking – this is Hackett, not me – about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families … the look of absolute horror.
BILL MURRAY

Anything Children Say Talking
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.
BILL MURRAY

Careers Pieces Thinking
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.
BILL MURRAY

Ordinary Past Trying
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Awards Campaigns
Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
BILL MURRAY

Automatic Needs Vacation
I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.
BILL MURRAY

Day Groundhog Groundhogs
When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, “We’re not gonna be friends until we get this done.
BILL MURRAY

Jobs People Together
It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
BILL MURRAY

Anything Artist Hard

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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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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