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Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.

Bill Murray

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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Anything Children Say Talking
Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
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Get Real Sometimes Tired
You cannot pray them out of hell.
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Hell Praying Scary
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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Hot People Successful
Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
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Being Hardest Jobs Yourself
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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Acting Needs Suits
So you’d have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining?
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Entertaining Figure Something Visually
I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money. (Something else can’t hear.)
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Director Headed Heck Success Whole
You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba.
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Acting Cells People
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
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Father Lonely Mother
If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it’s not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You’ve got to keep the energy up.
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Energy Fun People
I don’t feel like it’s pressure. It’s more of an obligation – not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there’s got to be a lightness in your leg.
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Light Mean Trying
There’s definitely a lot of trash that comes with the prize of being famous. It’s a nice gift, but there’s a lot of wrapping and paper and junk to cut through.
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Gift Girl Mean Nice Paper Wrapping
The cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That’s kind of what it’s like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.
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Angry People Pop Thousand
To people who want to be rich and famous, I’d say, “Get rich first and see if that doesn’t cover it.”
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Firsts People Want
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

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.

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