When you see grown men near to tears because they’ve missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
BILL MURRAYPeople say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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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 over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you’re in trouble. It’s like wanting to be married – you’ll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I’ve seen it.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
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You have to be as light as you can be, and you don’t have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.
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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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Every moment that you share someone else’s pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.
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The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.
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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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Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn’t here yet, whatever it’s going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That’s it.
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I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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