Bill Murray Quotes

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. ~ Bill Murray

Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn. ~ Bill Murray

I've killed myself so many times, I don't even exist anymore. ~ Bill Murray

Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired. ~ Bill Murray

Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I'm just telling everyone that it's a wonderful place to go. ~ Bill Murray

The only good thing about fame that I've gotten is I've gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I've gotten into a restaurant when I didn't have a suit and tie on. That's really about it. ~ Bill Murray

My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses ~ Bill Murray

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. ~ Bill Murray

We all grew up with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray. ~ Lucas Till

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation. ~ Bill Murray

I don't believe that you can give the same performance every take. It's physically impossible, so why bother? If you don't do what is happening at that moment, then it's not real. Then you're holding something back. ~ Bill Murray

You know how funerals are not for the dead, they're for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they're for the uncommitted. ~ Bill Murray

I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship. I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money. (Something else can't hear.) ~ Bill Murray

If Google doesn't know the answer, then it's not a question ~ Bill Murray

One of my favorite comedies is 'Groundhog Day' and 'Scrooged.' I love Bill Murray, and I think he's a great example of an actor who is funny. ~ Fiona Gubelmann

If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it's not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You've got to keep the energy up. ~ Bill Murray

We didn't get along, me and Bill Murray. But I've got to give it to him: I don't like him, but he makes me laugh even now. I'm also jealous that he's a better golfer than I am. ~ Richard Dreyfuss

I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used to root for Bill Murray or John Candy in "Stripes." Seth had something that very few people you encounter have: he had a writer's mind and he had his own comic point of view. ~ Judd Apatow

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

Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes. ~ Jeff Garlin

Drinking again? Go to hell. All I ever do is make some movies that made a lot of money now leave me alone, I want to have some fun. ~ Bill Murray

That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful. ~ Bill Murray

I really don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. ~ Bill Murray

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

The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money. ~ Bill Murray

People think because they employed you they're allowed to treat you like a dictator, or whatever the worse word for dictator is. And that's always been a problem for me. Opening the door for someone behind you is as important as designing a building. ~ Bill Murray

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey. ~ Bill Murray

The Best Way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream. ~ Bill Murray

I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person. ~ Bill Murray

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another. ~ Bill Murray

Its Christmas Eve! Its the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be. ~ Bill Murray

And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. ~ Bill Murray

I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot ... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now. ~ George Clooney

There's something very edgy about Bill Murray out there improvising. ~ Harold Ramis

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it." ~ Bill Murray

I don't know what my fans are going to think. It's definitely not what they're used to from me. ~ Bill Murray

Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's usually something unusual. ~ Bill Murray

This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life. ~ Bill Murray

I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with 'Lost in Translation' and 'Rushmore.' I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great. ~ Will Ferrell

People confuse friendship and relaxation. It's incredibly important to be relaxed - you don't have a chance if you're not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different. ~ Bill Murray

Disneyland. The world's biggest people trap, built by a mouse. ~ Bill Murray

It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor. ~ Will Ferrell

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it. ~ Bill Murray

Durbin looked from one of them to another, and shook his head. "So what is all this, exactly? Who are you people, the Ghostbusters?"
"Hell, no." Lena clasped Georgia's shoulder while the other woman helped her into a sitting position. "Bill Murray's got nothing on me. ~ Laura Oliva

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them. ~ Bill Murray

Natasha Lyonne is fantastic on Twitter. She posts hilarious pictures. I don't even know where she finds some of them; it'll be like a random picture of a chinchilla kissing a lion or Bill Murray and Jim Belushi out on a boat or something. ~ Uzo Aduba

No one ever laughs when I make these kinds of jokes. When Bill Murray says shit like this, people completely lose it. I wish I was Bill Murray. I hope everything I've read about evolution is wrong, and I eventually evolve into him. ~ Caitlin Moran

I wish I was Bill Murray. I hope everything I've read about evolution is wrong, and I eventually evolve into him. It's one of only three plans I have. ~ Caitlin Moran

Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, 'Lost in Translation.' ~ Steve Erickson

I act like a jerk sometimes. ~ Bill Murray

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

You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. [ ... ] That's the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you'll actually witness, that you'll participate in. Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it's Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering. ~ Bill Murray

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. ~ Bill Murray

I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world. ~ Dana Carvey

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. ~ Bill Murray

You want my dark side? Have I ever stolen anything? Not so much intentionally. But I don't think it's so much stealing as ... being a part of the flow of the universe. You know, where there's an exchange. It's positive. It's negative. There's an exchange of goods and services ~ Bill Murray

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

I'm over the Oscar thing. 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. I've seen it. ~ Bill Murray

You gotta want it. ~ Bill Murray

I'm a really big fan of Bill Murray. ~ Phil Hartman

Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has. ~ Bill Murray

Life is so damn short. For fuck's sake, just do what makes you happy. ~ Bill Murray

If people really want to find you, they find you. ~ Bill Murray

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.' ~ Bill Murray

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award. ~ Bill Murray

If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun. ~ Bill Murray

Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is. ~ Bill Murray

Grab this day by the neck and kiss it. ~ Bill Murray

If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something. ~ Bill Murray

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. ~ Bill Murray

You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone. ~ Bill Murray

You can't think about what you're going to do. It just gets in the way. You have to be just available for life, otherwise you're not bringing anything to the party. So I don't lie awake thinking about what I'm going to do workwise. There's just too much going on. ~ Bill Murray

Bill Murray is on the show tonight. Next week I'll be Goggling 'foods that improve prostate health.' ~ David Letterman

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood. ~ Bill Murray

When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. ~ Bill Murray

I don't feel like it's pressure. It's more of an obligation - not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there's got to be a lightness in your leg. You have to be as light as you can be, and you don't have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something. ~ Bill Murray

Different vodkas have different effects. Some make you feel a little ... poly-lingual. Some make you feel like you want to talk back to someone who's giving you a hard time. Some make you feel like lifting kettle bells. ~ Bill Murray

I count on the kindness of strangers. ~ Bill Murray

As I come to the end of my advice and send you off into the world, I have an alternative way for you to stay on the straight and narrow: periodically watch Groundhog Day. It was made long ago, in 1993, but it's still smart and funny, the chemistry between the stars (Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell) is terrific, and it has a happy ending. Groundhog Day is also a profound moral fable that deals with the most fundamental issues of virtue and happiness. ~ Charles Murray

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. ~ Bill Murray

I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was. ~ Bill Murray

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. ~ Bill Murray

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. ~ Bill Murray

I don't really read the reviews - but I remember one I read a long time ago that said I had a face like a potato. ~ Bill Murray

Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn. ~ Bill Murray

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working. ~ Bill Murray

Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, 'That would be interesting.' Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point. ~ Bill Murray

I lost my phone and I just really didn't look for it. It was the nicest feeling, like six weeks ... A couple of times I needed to use a telephone, and I was always able to touch someone that had a telephone and say, "Hey, can I use your phone? May I please?" And they'd say, "Sure." And that was it! So it was OK, it was a real vacation. I took a real vacation from myself ... ~ Bill Murray

Zombies dont mess with other zombies. ~ Bill Murray

Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day' ~ Marco Rubio

I would love to work with Bill Murray. I've always been such a big fan. I think he's obviously a great comedic actor but a really interesting actor. ~ Will Ferrell

Life is a game, and it's much more fun if you play it as your own game, so stay light and loose and relaxed. ~ Bill Murray

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you. ~ Bill Murray

The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do. ~ Bill Murray

You had to keep the mood up; you had to keep the tempo up. You had to keep the feeling of, "Hey, we're doing something that's really exciting. It's fun being with these people." And the more fun you have, the better you do it. ~ Bill Murray

Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do. ~ Denis Leary

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. ~ Bill Murray

I would jump into the middle of the street and say, "excuse me, there's a Mercedes that's got to get through here." And I would push people out of the way, "get out of the way! Let him through!" Smacking their cars and stuff. Just like, "whack" and you just jump into it. ~ Bill Murray

I'm a nut, but not just a nut. ~ Bill Murray

I think if you thought about it a little while longer, you'd realize that you'd far better be a Ghostbuster: a nerd in New York with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on your back, and a one-in-four chance of being Bill Murray. ~ Caitlin Moran