To people who want to be rich and famous, I’d say, “Get rich first and see if that doesn’t cover it.”
BILL MURRAYMy favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.
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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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You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
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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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My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.
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You can’t think about what you’re going to do. It just gets in the way. You have to be just available for life, otherwise you’re not bringing anything to the party. So I don’t lie awake thinking about what I’m going to do workwise. There’s just too much going on.
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The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.
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So far, I’ve only sailed in the Caribbean. I’ve sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted some really crummy boats in the Grenadines. That made for an exciting sailing trip (laughs) when everything goes well.
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Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.
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I would jump into the middle of the street and say, “excuse me, there’s a Mercedes that’s got to get through here.” And I would push people out of the way, “get out of the way! Let him through!” Smacking their cars and stuff. Just like, “whack” and you just jump into it.
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I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song ‘Love the One You’re With’; there is something to that. It’s not just make love to whomever you’re with, it’s just love whomever you’re with.
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I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.
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Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, ‘That would be interesting.’ Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.
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Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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Like: ‘Don’t walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there’s somethin’ in there you’re going to bring out.’ You gotta commit. You’ve gotta go out there and improvise and you’ve gotta be completely unafraid to die.
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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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