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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.

Bill Murray

When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, “We’re not gonna be friends until we get this done.
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Jobs People Together
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
Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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Alcohol Liquid Photoshop
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
You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. […] That’s the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you’ll actually witness, that you’ll participate in.
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Monday Over Rolling You
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
I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.
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Intuition Knows Mouths
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
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
Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
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Cat Dog Sacrifice
And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
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Like Work Working
I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
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Funny Insanity Nuts
And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, ‘Oh! You’re gonna be the mayor?’ And I hadn’t even read the script yet.
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Cities might Son
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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Acting Needs Suits
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
The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.
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Army Feet Humorous
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
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Comedian Jobs Work
I didn’t get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.
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Chairs Folding Sitting
Zombies dont mess with other zombies.
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Mess Other Zombie
Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
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Errors Otherwise Thinking
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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Frighten People Rattle Supercharged
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
Now, for some of you it doesn’t matter. You were born rich and you’re going to stay rich. But here’s my advice to the rest of you.
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Advice Boys Matter Some
I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.
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Day Groundhog Groundhogs
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
I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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Bars Guy 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

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