I try to be available for life to happen to me. We’re in this life, and if you’re not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you’re available, life gets huge. You’re really living it.
BILL MURRAYGolf 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.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
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The critics. When they’re right, they’re right for the wrong reasons. And they’re usually wrong.
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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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You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
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Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.
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The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.
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I don’t know what my fans are going to think. It’s definitely not what they’re used to from me.
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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. – Stephen Leacockof Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.
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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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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
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My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.
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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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Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
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That’s the reason I’m not the one that’s dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
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You know…they say an elephant never forgets. What they don’t tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
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