The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
BILL MURRAYPeople say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
More Bill Murray Quotes
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I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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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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You 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.”
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I’d sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.
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I’m a nut, but not just a nut.
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We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
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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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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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The only good thing about fame that I’ve gotten is I’ve gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I’ve gotten into a restaurant when I didn’t have a suit and tie on. That’s really about it.
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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 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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Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
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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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Zombies dont mess with other zombies.
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I knew that’s where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn’t make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship.
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My back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
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People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
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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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Here’s the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don’t get there, we’re both fired.
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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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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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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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You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba.
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Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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I don’t know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn’t know how much money I was making.
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In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can’t help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They’re very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you’re there.
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