The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
BILL MURRAYThe automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
BILL MURRAYYou’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
BILL MURRAYHe’s going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It’s just total horror, and the camera’s still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, “Anything else, Bud?”
BILL MURRAYOne of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
BILL MURRAYNowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don’t have to feel that way. You feel like the script’s coming to you, you can just relax. You don’t have to drive the boat.
BILL MURRAYWhy would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.
BILL MURRAYI 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.
BILL MURRAYWell it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.
BILL MURRAYHuman sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
BILL MURRAYYou can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
BILL MURRAYI 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.
BILL MURRAYSo I went, and one of the funniest film moments I’ve ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up – motley isn’t the word for that group.
BILL MURRAYI’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.
BILL MURRAYWhatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
BILL MURRAYI don’t answer fan mail. I don’t have time for that. It’s like hundreds of thousands of people who think they’re going to become millionaires getting autographs from movie actors. I don’t have time for those idiots. I’ve got stuff to do.
BILL MURRAYThere are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
BILL MURRAY