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.
BILL MURRAYLike: ‘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.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
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Somewhere there’s a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.
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You know…they say an elephant never forgets. What they don’t tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
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I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn’t I get that day over and over and over?
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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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Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
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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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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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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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You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
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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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Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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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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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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You say, “Do you want a piece of this movie?” And he’s got to sell this movie to get his money back. That’s the brains of it; that’s the genius of this financing. “You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you’ve got Germany.”
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