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I’m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do.

Bill Murray

I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
BILL MURRAY

Bars Guy Want
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.
BILL MURRAY

Acting People World
The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
BILL MURRAY

Critics Reason Right Wrong
Disneyland. The world’s biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
BILL MURRAY

People Traps World
The 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.
BILL MURRAY

Home Reminding Way Yourself
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.
BILL MURRAY

People Thinking Want
And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, ‘Oh! You’re gonna be the mayor?’ And I hadn’t even read the script yet.
BILL MURRAY

Cities might Son
He’s going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It’s just total horror, and the camera’s still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, “Anything else, Bud?”
BILL MURRAY

Anything Bud Else Grinding
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.
BILL MURRAY

Frighten People Rattle Supercharged
When you see grown men near to tears because they’ve missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
BILL MURRAY

Feet Men White
I’m not an ungenerous person; I don’t resent it. It’s just sort of a head-scratcher.
BILL MURRAY

Persons Resent Scratcher
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.
BILL MURRAY

Distorted Everybody Response Smoke Together
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.
BILL MURRAY

Lying Party Thinking
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.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Ambition Desire
I act like a jerk sometimes.
BILL MURRAY

Act Jerks Like Sometimes
You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
BILL MURRAY

Good Knows

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