I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.
Interpretation
A relationship is a partnership that requires mutual effort and collaboration.
Bill Murray emphasizes the importance of working together in a relationship, suggesting that a meaningful connection should involve both partners actively participating and contributing. Without this shared effort, the relationship lacks depth and purpose, indicating that true partnerships thrive on collaboration and commitment from both sides.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about what makes relationships successful during a couple's therapy session.
You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba, the cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That's kind of what it's like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.
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.'
There's definitely a lot of trash that comes with the prize of being famous. It's a nice gift, but there's a lot of wrapping and paper and junk to cut through. Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me. I mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.
Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time.
Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them.
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.
We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good about themselves. If you make a person feel smart and insightful, that person will enjoy your company.
There cannot be peace where there is not trust; there cannot be freedom where there is not loyalty
If you're black, you got to look at America a little bit different. You got to look at America like the uncle who paid for you to go to college, but who molested you.
Asking women to respect themselves in order to βearnβ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you have the right to treat her exactly as you please because she didnβt adhere to your archaic views of feminine propriety is misogyny, plain and simple.
Gays and lesbians are our friends, neighbors, doctors, colleagues, sisters and brothers.
I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.
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