I’m not an ungenerous person; I don’t resent it. It’s just sort of a head-scratcher.
BILL MURRAYThose are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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Now, for some of you it doesn’t matter. You were born rich and you’re going to stay rich. But here’s my advice to the rest of you.
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You’re supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you’re trying to going up, you’re trying to pull someone up at the same time.
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Back then, when a movie came out and people saw you on the street, their reaction was so supercharged that it was scary. It would frighten other people. It used to really rattle me.
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Like: ‘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.
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To people who want to be rich and famous, I’d say, “Get rich first and see if that doesn’t cover it.”
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Why 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.
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Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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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.
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I think we’re all sort of imprisoned by – or at least bound to – the choices we make… You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.
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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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The first year I had money, I really went shopping. I got really caught up in it. I bought all my brothers sets of luggage, and I bought ’em winter coats from Giorgio Armani – winter coats. And I got a pair of socks from this brother.
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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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Golf 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.
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Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
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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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You work, you get paid, you drink.
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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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He’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?”
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You cannot pray them out of hell.
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I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
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The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
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I’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.
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I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song ‘Love the One You’re With’; there is something to that. It’s not just make love to whomever you’re with, it’s just love whomever you’re with.
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Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
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Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
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It’s much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.
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