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BILL MURRAYI’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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My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.
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And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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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 thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money. (Something else can’t hear.)
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You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
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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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Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
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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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Be available for life to happen.
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If you have a good script, that’s what gets you involved. It’s harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
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It just doesn’t matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER! It just doesn’t matter! It just doesn’t matter!
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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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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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My back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
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Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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