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" 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. "
Bill Murray
Kind
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" I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. "
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" 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. "
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" When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. "
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" Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a nut, but not just a nut. "
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" I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not. "
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" I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. "
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" I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making. "
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" 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. "
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" When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance. "
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