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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.

Bill Murray

We’re Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
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Country Home Travel
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.
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Cities might Son
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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Anything Children Say Talking
If I run into someone on the street, that’s one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.
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Fun Jobs Running
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
When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don’t like to have a situation placed over my head.
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Chance Jobs Phones
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
You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow.
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Body Light Trying
Zombies dont mess with other zombies.
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Mess Other Zombie
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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Half People Years
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?”
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Anything Bud Else Grinding
And go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if when you come back to JFK, when you land in JFK, and you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport.
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Airport Back Come Married Person
Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
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Being Hardest Jobs Yourself
The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.
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Atheist Easter Friday
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
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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Able Die Hands Pockets
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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Being Different Everbody Girl Mean
I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
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Know Sour Taste
Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
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Enemy People War Worst
The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.
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Lasts Roles Want
You work, you get paid, you drink.
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Drink Get Paid
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
You’re supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you’re trying to going up, you’re trying to pull someone up at the same time.
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Hands Suppose Trying
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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Ass Famous Giving Two Years
Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I’m just telling everyone that it’s a wonderful place to go.
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Get Go Money Morocco Places
Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
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Deep Dying Humor Thought
I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that’s it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I’d done something.
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Home Month Mustache

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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