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.
BILL MURRAYThere’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.
BILL MURRAYYou say, “Do you want a piece of this movie?” And he’s got to sell this movie to get his money back. That’s the brains of it; that’s the genius of this financing. “You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you’ve got Germany.”
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’m a nut, but not just a nut.
BILL MURRAYIf 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 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 MURRAYYou cannot pray them out of hell.
BILL MURRAYOne of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
BILL MURRAYTotie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
BILL MURRAYThe cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That’s kind of what it’s like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.
BILL MURRAYMy back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
BILL MURRAYI 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 MURRAYI’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 MURRAYWhatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
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 MURRAYWhen 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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