Bill Murray Quotes

There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.

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• 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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• I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

  

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• I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.

  

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• 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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• Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.

  

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• I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.

  

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• People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.

  

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• But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

  

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• The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

  

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• In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

  

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• I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.

  

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• I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live.

  

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• There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.

  

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• I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.

  

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• Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.

  

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• I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.

  

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• People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

  

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• When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.

  

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• I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

  

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• One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

  

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• I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.

  

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• If people really want to find you, they find you.

  

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• Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

  

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• I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

  

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