The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
BILL MURRAYWhenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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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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The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.
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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.
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And go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if when you come back to JFK, when you land in JFK, and you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport.
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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.
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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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They are getting so much smoke blown, and their whole world gets so turned upside down, their responses become distorted. I give everybody a year or two to pull it together because, when it first happens, I know how it is.
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The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.
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I’d like [Santa Claus] to give Wes Anderson, the director, enough money in his next budget for an aerial shot – just a little copter shot. He really wanted this one helicopter shot, and Disney wouldn’t give him the money. Just wouldn’t give him the money.
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Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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Okay, let’s pick a date. Let’s plan this and make a party and get married.’ Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world.
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Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage – I had to bury myself in my napkin.
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When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, “We’re not gonna be friends until we get this done.
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Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
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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.
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We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
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When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I’m just trying to make the sound guy laugh, the script supervisor.
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Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
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When I started, the scripts weren’t as good, and you’d have to have a huge burst of energy to go, “Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff’s no good.”
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Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
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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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I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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It’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
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It just doesn’t matter if we win or we lose. IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER! It just doesn’t matter! It just doesn’t matter!
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I’m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do.
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Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It’s so challenging to live, and the people are so close among their own tribes, their own groups, that you can’t rule them all, you can’t get an accord from all of them.
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