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I don’t feel like it’s pressure. It’s more of an obligation – not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there’s got to be a lightness in your leg.

Bill Murray

There aren’t many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that’s a 24 hour job right there.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Asking Jobs
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
I don’t know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn’t know how much money I was making.
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Guy How Know Making Money
If we don’t get this done, we’re never going to be friends, because if we don’t get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed.”
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Done Failed Friend Together
My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, ‘That’s it-let’s get the hell outta here.’
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Acting Award Winning
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
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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Exciting Islands Laughing Rip
In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can’t help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They’re very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you’re there.
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Country Helping Ideas
Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.
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Day Groundhog Stripes Together
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.
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Distorted Everybody Response Smoke Together
It’s much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.
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Cake Guy Play
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
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Comedian Jobs Work
I don’t know what my fans are going to think. It’s definitely not what they’re used to from me.
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Fans Thinking Used
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 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
There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing.
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Couple Kids Kitchen
You have to be as light as you can be, and you don’t have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.
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Body Elevate Emotions Something
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
You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
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Boring Eye Phones
I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.
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Award Country Years
I didn’t get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.
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Chairs Folding Sitting
I think all phases of one’s career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
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Careers Pieces Thinking
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.
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Energy Fun People
All parties are good.
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Good Party
Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
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Golf Kids Play
Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
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Cat Dog Sacrifice
If Google doesn’t know the answer, then it’s not a question
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Answers Google Media Social

I don’t feel like it’s pressure. It’s more of an obligation – not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there’s got to be a lightness in your leg.

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