But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything – your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.
BILL MURRAYI 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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Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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People say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
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You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
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Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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To people who want to be rich and famous, I’d say, “Get rich first and see if that doesn’t cover it.”
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Here’s the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don’t get there, we’re both fired.
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I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.
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Now, for some of you it doesn’t matter. You were born rich and you’re going to stay rich. But here’s my advice to the rest of you.
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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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Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don’t have to feel that way. You feel like the script’s coming to you, you can just relax. You don’t have to drive the boat.
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There aren’t many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that’s a 24 hour job right there.
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If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say ‘Did you just see what I saw?!’, you’ll find that no-one wants to talk to you.
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Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
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I think midlife crisis is just a point where people’s careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.
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