Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
BILL MURRAYThe only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.
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And go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if when you come back to JFK, when you land in JFK, and you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport.
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The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.
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Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It’s so challenging to live, and the people are so close among their own tribes, their own groups, that you can’t rule them all, you can’t get an accord from all of them.
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I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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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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I try to be available for life to happen to me. We’re in this life, and if you’re not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you’re available, life gets huge. You’re really living it.
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I don’t know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn’t know how much money I was making.
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I really don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth.
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People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You’re new and you’re hot and things go wrong.
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When everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it’s terrible and amazing stuff.
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The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
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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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Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like, ‘Yep, I like this one,’ and you just do stuff with them.
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