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.
BILL MURRAYSomewhere 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.
BILL MURRAYYou 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.
BILL MURRAYThe automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
BILL MURRAYChicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it’s usually something unusual.
BILL MURRAYReligion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
BILL MURRAYPeople are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
BILL MURRAYEvery moment that you share someone else’s pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.
BILL MURRAYI’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.
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 MURRAYDon’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
BILL MURRAYLike: ‘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.
BILL MURRAYThe last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.
BILL MURRAYPeople usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You’re new and you’re hot and things go wrong.
BILL MURRAYI mean, everybody would love to have their clothes torn off by a mob of girls, but being screamed at is different.
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.
BILL MURRAYAnd 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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