If you have a good script, that’s what gets you involved. It’s harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
BILL MURRAYIf you have a good script, that’s what gets you involved. It’s harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
BILL MURRAYTake dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can’t buy backbone. Don’t let them forget it. Thank you.
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 MURRAYThat’s sort of why I got into acting. I realized the more fun I had, the better I did it. And I thought, that’s a job I could be proud of. It’s changed my life learning that, and it’s made me better at what I do.
BILL MURRAYThe human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we’re doing.
BILL MURRAYTotie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.
BILL MURRAYChicago actors are hard-nosed. They’re tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They’re self-demanding.
BILL MURRAYThe atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.
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 MURRAYThe only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.
BILL MURRAYGrab this day by the neck and kiss it.
BILL MURRAYThe Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.
BILL MURRAYAll 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.
BILL MURRAYYou’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
BILL MURRAYI was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn’t I get that day over and over and over?
BILL MURRAYYou don’t have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don’t need a giant crew. It’s great.
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