My back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
BILL MURRAYI was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.
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Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, ‘That would be interesting.’ Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.
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I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren’s dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.
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I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.
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The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.
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This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
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We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
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You can’t think about what you’re going to do. It just gets in the way. You have to be just available for life, otherwise you’re not bringing anything to the party. So I don’t lie awake thinking about what I’m going to do workwise. There’s just too much going on.
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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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Every moment that you share someone else’s pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.
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All of us kids ended up ‘doing Mom.’ There are four of us who’ve tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
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People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You’re new and you’re hot and things go wrong.
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There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
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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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The 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.
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Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
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