The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
BILL MURRAYAwards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
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Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage – I had to bury myself in my napkin.
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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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The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You’ve got to give them a year and a half, two years.
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If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just sort of think in your ordinary mind, ‘
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Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
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All of us kids ended up ‘doing Mom.’ There are four of us who’ve tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
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My back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
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You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
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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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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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I don’t believe that you can give the same performance every take. It’s physically impossible, so why bother? If you don’t do what is happening at that moment, then it’s not real. Then you’re holding something back.
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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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Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.
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