Bill Murray on Del Close

Bill Murray on Second City teacher/mentor Del Close:

He taught lots and lots of people very effectively. He taught people to commit. 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. You’re goin’ out there with just a whisper of an idea. The fear will make you clench up. That’s the fear of dying. When you start and the first few lines don’t grab and people are going like, “What’s this? I’m not laughing and I’m not interested,” then you just put your arms out like this and open way up and that allows your stuff to go out. Otherwise it’s just stuck inside you.

Read the full Bill Murray Interview.

(via @randyjhunt)

4 Comments leave a comment below

  1. My brother is a huge Bill Murray fan so recently having had the “experience” of working with him I asked him if he wouldn’t mind signing a Birthday card for him. Inside he wrote, “grab this day by the neck and kiss it”…my new mantra for life – Thanks Mr Murray!

  2. link doesn’t work. thank you
    cheers
    m

  3. I think you can go to this original link for that interview of Bill Murray: The ESQ+A (on esquire.com)
    http://www.esquire.com/features/man-at-his-best/q-and-a/bill-murray-interview-0612

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