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I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you’ve got to study, and that wasn’t going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn’t going to work.

Bill Murray

Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn’t here yet, whatever it’s going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That’s it.
BILL MURRAY

Future Gone Past Wells
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.
BILL MURRAY

Energy Fun People
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.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Cells People
Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
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Cat Dog Sacrifice
Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
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Actors Chicago Self
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
The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
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Critics Reason Right Wrong
When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that’s why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn’t fall asleep. That gift I have still.
BILL MURRAY

Baseball Fall Kids
The set is stocked with Victorian extras and little children in Oliver kind of outfits, and the director says, “All right, Bud – just give it whatever you want.” And Hackett goes off on a rant. Unbelievably obscene.
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Oliver Right Stocked Unbelievable
Okay, let’s pick a date. Let’s plan this and make a party and get married.’ Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world.
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Date Make Party Pick Travel
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.
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Better Relaxed Wise Words
Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
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Deep Dying Humor Thought
The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that’s very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.
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Buying Car Mother
It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
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Anything Artist Hard
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.
BILL MURRAY

Exciting Islands Laughing Rip
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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Friendship New Stuff
You work, you get paid, you drink.
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Drink Get Paid
I don’t know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn’t know how much money I was making.
BILL MURRAY

Guy How Know Making Money
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.
BILL MURRAY

Angry People Pop Thousand
We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
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Cherries Ice Cream Syrup
That’s the reason I’m not the one that’s dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
BILL MURRAY

Life Powerful Reason
Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
BILL MURRAY

Crash Knows People
You don’t have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don’t need a giant crew. It’s great.
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Film Giants Needs
I’ve been lucky, I’ve had movies that made a lot of money, so I don’t feel like I have to kill every time out. I don’t want that pressure. I don’t need it.
BILL MURRAY

Lucky Needs Want
Zombies dont mess with other zombies.
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Mess Other Zombie
Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
BILL MURRAY

Alcohol Liquid Photoshop
Here’s the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don’t get there, we’re both fired.
BILL MURRAY

Downsizing Faster Fired

I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you’ve got to study, and that wasn’t going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn’t going to work.

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