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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.’

Bill Murray

And go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if when you come back to JFK, when you land in JFK, and you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport.
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Airport Back Come Married Person
That’s sort of why I got into acting. I realized the more fun I had, the better I did it. And I thought, that’s a job I could be proud of. It’s changed my life learning that, and it’s made me better at what I do.
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Although Better Change Made Realize
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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Important Kids Thinking
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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Energy Everything Relax Trying Visual
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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Best Happened Part Remembering
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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Distorted Everybody Response Smoke Together
There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing.
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Couple Kids Kitchen
Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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Crash Knows People
The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.
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Home Reminding Way Yourself
Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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Automatic Needs Vacation
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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Cake Guy Play
You want my dark side? Have I ever stolen anything? Not so much intentionally. But I don’t think it’s so much stealing as… being a part of the flow of the universe.
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Dark Negative Thinking
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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Kids Names Numbers
Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
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Fields Shows Standards
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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Body Elevate Emotions Something
This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
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Dresses Rehearsal

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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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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