Bill Murray Quotes
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The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.
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Be available for life to happen.
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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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When you act obnoxious towards people, like on a movie set, they say "we're ready for you" and I say "oh, go to hell, my feet hurt and my head aches." You want to have a margarita for lunch, and people like these little ADs and production assistants are like, "well, he's drinking again."
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It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.
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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. 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. Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage - I had to bury myself in my napkin.
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If Google doesn't know the answer, then it's not a question...
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It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.
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Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.
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The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. 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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Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day.
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The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing.
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I've got kids and that's important. It's funny, you think that there's an expiration date on them and there just isn't.
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When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, "We're not gonna be friends until we get this done. If we don't get this done, we're never going to be friends, because if we don't get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed."
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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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Disneyland. The world's biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
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I'd like Santa Claus to give Wes Anderson, the director, enough money in his next budget for an aerial shot - just a little copter shot. He really wanted this one helicopter shot, and Disney wouldn't give him the money. Just wouldn't give him the money. Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
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I'm not an ungenerous person; I don't resent it. It's just sort of a head-scratcher.
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I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song 'Love the One You're With'; there is something to that. It's not just make love to whomever you're with, it's just love whomever you're with.
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Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen.
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My brother lived in a dry gulch where the world of socks and shoes became extremely fascinating, and he felt that everyone needs a good pair of socks, and why not limit his gift giving to something that everybody needs? He thought that there was something humorous about it. So he gives socks.
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My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, 'That's it-let's get the hell outta here.'
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I don't know what my fans are going to think. It's definitely not what they're used to from me.
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I know how to be sour. I know that taste.