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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

You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. […] That’s the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you’ll actually witness, that you’ll participate in.
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Monday Over Rolling You
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
Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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Automatic Needs Vacation
When I started, the scripts weren’t as good, and you’d have to have a huge burst of energy to go, “Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff’s no good.”
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Energy Everything Relax Trying Visual
People say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
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Badges People Sometimes
Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage – I had to bury myself in my napkin.
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Buy Damage Everybody Napkin
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
I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.
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People Thinking Want
You work, you get paid, you drink.
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Drink Get Paid
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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Life Obligation Score
And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, ‘Oh! You’re gonna be the mayor?’ And I hadn’t even read the script yet.
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Cities might Son
Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it’s Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.
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Best Happened Part Remembering
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
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Father Lonely Mother
I act like a jerk sometimes.
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Act Jerks Like Sometimes
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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Adventure Common Sense Whiskey
Different vodkas have different effects. Some make you feel a little… poly-lingual. Some make you feel like you want to talk back to someone who’s giving you a hard time. Some make you feel like lifting kettle bells.
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Giving Hard Times Want

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.

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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.

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