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.
BILL MURRAYGrab this day by the neck and kiss it.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.
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Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
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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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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 hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
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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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Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
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Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can’t buy backbone. Don’t let them forget it. Thank you.
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One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
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Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
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Be available for life to happen.
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In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can’t help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They’re very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you’re there.
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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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I act like a jerk sometimes.
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