Bill Murray Quotes

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
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Deep Dying Humor Thought
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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Firsts People Want
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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Choices Thinking Want
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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Anything Bud Else Grinding
Buddy 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.
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Anything Children Say Talking
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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Adventure Common Sense Whiskey
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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Advice Boys Matter Some
I 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?
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Day Girl Good Sunset
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.
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Acting Actors Thinking
There 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.
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Acting Asking Jobs
I don’t know what my fans are going to think. It’s definitely not what they’re used to from me.
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Fans Thinking Used
I think all phases of one’s career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
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Careers Pieces Thinking
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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Father Lonely Mother
I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
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Know Sour Taste
I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren’s dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.
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Book Dog Real
Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
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Every Day Helicopter Studio Talking
Disneyland. The world’s biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
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People Traps World
Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.
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Crash Knows People
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.
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Better Relaxed Wise Words
Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage – I had to bury myself in my napkin.
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Buy Damage Everybody Napkin
When I feel like I’m stuck, I do something – not like I’m Mother Teresa or anything, but there’s someone that’s forgotten about in your life, all the time. Someone that could use an ‘Attaboy’ or a ‘How you doin’ out there.
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Forgotten Mother Use
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. – Stephen Leacockof Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.
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Believe Christmas Essence
I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year – they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards.
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Award Country Years
You want my dark side? Have I ever stolen anything? Not so much intentionally. But I don’t think it’s so much stealing as… being a part of the flow of the universe.
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Dark Negative Thinking
Be available for life to happen.
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Available Happens Life
Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn’t here yet, whatever it’s going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That’s it.
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Future Gone Past Wells
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
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Family Friends Lonely Want

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