People confuse friendship and relaxation. It’s incredibly important to be relaxed – you don’t have a chance if you’re not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different.
BILL MURRAYPeople confuse friendship and relaxation. It’s incredibly important to be relaxed – you don’t have a chance if you’re not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different.
BILL MURRAYTotie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
BILL MURRAYThat’s the reason I’m not the one that’s dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
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 MURRAYSo far, I’ve only sailed in the Caribbean. I’ve sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted some really crummy boats in the Grenadines. That made for an exciting sailing trip (laughs) when everything goes well.
BILL MURRAYPeople say I’m difficult and sometimes that’s a badge of honour.
BILL MURRAYI’m just a potato that won’t quit. I’m a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I’ve got legs.
BILL MURRAYWe still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it
BILL MURRAYDisneyland. The world’s biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
BILL MURRAYJust 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.
BILL MURRAYWhen you see grown men near to tears because they’ve missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
BILL MURRAYDon’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.
BILL MURRAYI’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.
BILL MURRAYThe automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
BILL MURRAYSo I went, and one of the funniest film moments I’ve ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up – motley isn’t the word for that group.
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.
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