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I don’t believe that you can give the same performance every take. It’s physically impossible, so why bother? If you don’t do what is happening at that moment, then it’s not real. Then you’re holding something back.

Bill Murray

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.
BILL MURRAY

Home Month Mustache
If you have a good script, that’s what gets you involved. It’s harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
BILL MURRAY

Harder Scripts Writing
Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
BILL MURRAY

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
We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that’s part of your obligation.
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Giving Life Live Lonely
And even if we win, if we win, HAH! Even if we win! Even if we play so far above our heads that our noses bleed for a week to ten days; even if God in Heaven above comes down and points his hand at our side of the field.
BILL MURRAY

Children Girls Heads Men Noses
I act like a jerk sometimes.
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Act Jerks Like Sometimes
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
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.
BILL MURRAY

Body Elevate Emotions Something
One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
BILL MURRAY

Acting Myself Way
Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
BILL MURRAY

Every Day Helicopter Studio Talking
There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing.
BILL MURRAY

Couple Kids Kitchen
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
When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that’s why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn’t fall asleep. That gift I have still.
BILL MURRAY

Baseball Fall Kids
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.
BILL MURRAY

Better Relaxed Wise Words
It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
BILL MURRAY

Anything Artist Hard

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