Bill Murray Quotes

I don't answer fan mail. I don't have time for that. It's like hundreds of thousands of people who think they're going to become millionaires getting autographs from movie actors. I don't have time for those idiots. I've got stuff to do.

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• Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Serious

• I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Crazy

• I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Star
  • Idea
  • Just

• If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Live
  • Women
  • Reality

• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Age
  • Young
  • Vacuum

• I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Good
  • Day

• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Different
  • Success
  • Man

• I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Me
  • Ideas

• It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • You
  • Believing
  • Push

• Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.

  

  Sai Baba
  • World
  • Man
  • Interests

• They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Eyes
  • Better
  • Order

• I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pain

• But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Up
  • Music
  • Working

• No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Matter
  • Same
  • Depression

• As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Finding

• I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Proud
  • Pleasure
  • Fact

• I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Men are still playing protector of women’s transitions, and both sexes expect only men to make transitions on their own.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women

• Any time someone stops me in the street and asks me for an autograph, pro wrestling gave me that.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Time
  • Wrestling

• I was born in Belgium, but we moved to Kilburn when I was one, so 'Time Out' has always been in the background of my life.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • Life
  • Time

• I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Funny

• I don't answer fan mail. I don't have time for that. It's like hundreds of thousands of people who think they're going to become millionaires getting autographs from movie actors. I don't have time for those idiots. I've got stuff to do.

  

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