So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I’ve ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up – motley isn’t the word for that group.
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More Bill Murray Quotes
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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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The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.
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I’m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do.
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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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Groundhog Day’ was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn’t even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.
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We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
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The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
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The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.
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One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
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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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There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
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Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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When everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it’s terrible and amazing stuff.
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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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