Bill Murray Quotes

It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.

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• I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Films

• I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Always
  • Film
  • Same

• That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Better
  • Everyone

• As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

  

  Kanye West
  • President
  • Run
  • Decided

• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Quality
  • Will

• My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • American
  • Debate

• There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Real
  • Violence

• Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Career
  • Respect
  • Choices

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Home
  • Suffering
  • Ability

• Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Worth It
  • Not Worth It

• If there is any Arab problem we can solve it inside the Arab League. But we are going to deal with the other side, with the Israelis.... It is not me who will decide who will invite, to speak frankly. It is not me, it is not the Arab side, it is not the Israelis who will decide who will invite.

  

  Yasser Arafat

• If you want to take down your opponent, you do it tactically, point by point.

  

  Hasan Minhaj
  • Opponent

• The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.

  

  Wilfred Bion
  • Desire
  • Listen
  • Purest

• And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Make
  • Tragedy
  • Felt

• If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Good
  • Play
  • Anything

• It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Behavior