I think we’re all sort of imprisoned by – or at least bound to – the choices we make… You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.
BILL MURRAYWhatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.
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You want my dark side? Have I ever stolen anything? Not so much intentionally. But I don’t think it’s so much stealing as… being a part of the flow of the universe.
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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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Eh, it’s not that attractive to have a plan. I know that if I ever feel that I need to make a funny movie, I’ll figure out how to write one. I’ll get it done. If I ever get some ambition, I’m gonna get some shit done.
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I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
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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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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.
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Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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My back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
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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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I’m just a potato that won’t quit. I’m a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I’ve got legs.
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So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I’ve ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up – motley isn’t the word for that group.
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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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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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