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I knew that’s where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn’t make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship.

Bill Murray

I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
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Funny Insanity Nuts
It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
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Anything Artist Hard
I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren’s dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.
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Book Dog Real
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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Country Home Travel
The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who’s actually doing the distribution in France.
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Giving Guy Independent
He’s going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It’s just total horror, and the camera’s still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, “Anything else, Bud?”
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Anything Bud Else Grinding
I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.
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Award Country Years
If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just sort of think in your ordinary mind, ‘
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Love Party Thinking
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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Harder Scripts Writing
Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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Automatic Needs Vacation
Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don’t have to feel that way. You feel like the script’s coming to you, you can just relax. You don’t have to drive the boat.
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Coming Nowadays Relax Scripts
When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I’m just trying to make the sound guy laugh, the script supervisor.
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Golf Jobs Laughing
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
The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
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Critics Reason Right Wrong
I don’t answer fan mail. I don’t have time for that. It’s like hundreds of thousands of people who think they’re going to become millionaires getting autographs from movie actors. I don’t have time for those idiots. I’ve got stuff to do.
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Fans People Thinking
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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Important People Relaxation
Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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Crash Knows People
If 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.
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Fun Jobs Running
Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
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Day Kissing Necks
There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
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Crazy Jobs People
I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn’t I get that day over and over and over?
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Day Girl Good Sunset
You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
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Good Knows
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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Acting Actors Thinking
If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say ‘Did you just see what I saw?!’, you’ll find that no-one wants to talk to you.
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Person Random Saws Shoulders Want
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 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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Boring Eye Phones
I knew that’s where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn’t make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship.
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Country Directors Want

I knew that’s where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn’t make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship.

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