Whenever 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 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 MURRAYIt’s hard to be an artist. It’s hard to be anything. It’s hard to be.
BILL MURRAYI’m a nut, but not just a nut.
BILL MURRAYI act like a jerk sometimes.
BILL MURRAYEveryone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
BILL MURRAYJust beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
BILL MURRAYRather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it’s Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.
BILL MURRAYMy back hurts. My legs ache. I’m only four!
BILL MURRAYThere aren’t many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that’s a 24 hour job right there.
BILL MURRAYSometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
BILL MURRAYDifferent vodkas have different effects. Some make you feel a little… poly-lingual. Some make you feel like you want to talk back to someone who’s giving you a hard time. Some make you feel like lifting kettle bells.
BILL MURRAYPeople say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
BILL MURRAYBuddy Hackett [was] talking – this is Hackett, not me – about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families … the look of absolute horror.
BILL MURRAYYou can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.
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 MURRAYAnd I say, ‘Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.’ And he says, ‘Oh, uh, there won’t be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.’ So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.
BILL MURRAY