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" I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding. "

Bill Murray

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" Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out. "

" Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired. "

" No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life. "

" When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. "

" Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time. "

Bill Murray

Acting

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" I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good. "

" And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working. "

Bill Murray

Working

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" People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts. "

" I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar. "

" I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do. "

" 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. "

" I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. "

" I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it. "

" My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are. "

" One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal. "

" When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head. "

" 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. "

" I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job. "

" This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with. "

" I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making. "

" 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. "

" Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. "

Bill Murray

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Awards

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself. "

" Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable. "