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And I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.

Bill Murray

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.’
BILL MURRAY

Acting Award Winning
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
BILL MURRAY

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

Charming Guy Pay
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’d sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.
BILL MURRAY

Different Gone Spiritual
Zombies dont mess with other zombies.
BILL MURRAY

Mess Other Zombie
Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
BILL MURRAY

Errors Otherwise Thinking
My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses
BILL MURRAY

iPhone Moon Pigs
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Actors Thinking
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.
BILL MURRAY

Body Light Trying
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.
BILL MURRAY

Chairs Folding Sitting
People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You’re new and you’re hot and things go wrong.
BILL MURRAY

Hot People Successful
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
Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
BILL MURRAY

Every Day Helicopter Studio Talking
Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It’s so challenging to live, and the people are so close among their own tribes, their own groups, that you can’t rule them all, you can’t get an accord from all of them.
BILL MURRAY

Challenge Country People

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