Bill Murray Quotes

I don't believe that you can give the same performance every take. It's physically impossible, so why bother? If you don't do what is happening at that moment, then it's not real. Then you're holding something back.

Bill Murray

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• The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • May
  • Strong
  • Church

• My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Change

• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Progress

• I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Great
  • Why
  • Think

• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Woman

• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Friendship
  • Mask

• I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Figures
  • 20th Century

• Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

  

  E. L. James
  • Time
  • Children
  • Job

• Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Up
  • Everyone
  • Going

• I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Memories
  • Special
  • Spectacle

• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Man
  • Allah

• There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Trying
  • Pressure

• And all for love, and nothing for reward.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Nothing

• 'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Business
  • Politicians

• I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Earth
  • Environment
  • Childhood

• When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • People
  • Up
  • Meet

• I love my fashion, so I gotta have my outfits.

  

  Zendaya
  • Fashion
  • Gotta
  • Outfits

• Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.

  

  John Van Hamersveld
  • People
  • Color

• A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Positive
  • Psychology

• Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

  

  Max Born

• I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Natural
  • Disaster

• I don't believe that you can give the same performance every take. It's physically impossible, so why bother? If you don't do what is happening at that moment, then it's not real. Then you're holding something back.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Believe
  • Performance