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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.

Bill Murray

We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that’s part of your obligation.
BILL MURRAY

Giving Life Live Lonely
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.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Ambition Desire
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.
BILL MURRAY

Life Obligation Score
I’d sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.
BILL MURRAY

Different Gone Spiritual
Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage – I had to bury myself in my napkin.
BILL MURRAY

Buy Damage Everybody Napkin
My back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
BILL MURRAY

Four Hurt Legs
Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
BILL MURRAY

Crash Knows People
Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
BILL MURRAY

Deep Dying Humor Thought
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
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
BILL MURRAY

Honesty Music Truth
Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
BILL MURRAY

Being Hardest Jobs Yourself
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Needs Suits
Okay, let’s pick a date. Let’s plan this and make a party and get married.’ Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world.
BILL MURRAY

Date Make Party Pick Travel
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.”
BILL MURRAY

Energy Everything Relax Trying Visual
And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
BILL MURRAY

Like Work Working
I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.
BILL MURRAY

Day Groundhog Groundhogs

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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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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