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Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It's so challenging to live, and the people are so close among their own tribes, their own groups, that you can't rule them all, you can't get an accord from all of them.
Bill Murray
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Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.
Bill Murray
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It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.
Bill Murray
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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. You know, where there's an exchange. It's positive. It's negative. There's an exchange of goods and services.
Bill Murray
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When you act obnoxious towards people, like on a movie set, they say "we're ready for you" and I say "oh, go to hell, my feet hurt and my head aches." You want to have a margarita for lunch, and people like these little ADs and production assistants are like, "well, he's drinking again."
Bill Murray
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Be available for life to happen.
Bill Murray
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I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!
Bill Murray
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I've got kids and that's important. It's funny, you think that there's an expiration date on them and there just isn't.
Bill Murray
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I'm not an ungenerous person; I don't resent it. It's just sort of a head-scratcher.
Bill Murray
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It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.
Bill Murray
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The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing.
Bill Murray
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If Google doesn't know the answer, then it's not a question...
Bill Murray
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The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.
Bill Murray
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Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.
Bill Murray
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I count on the kindness of strangers.
Bill Murray
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I'd like Santa Claus to give Wes Anderson, the director, enough money in his next budget for an aerial shot - just a little copter shot. He really wanted this one helicopter shot, and Disney wouldn't give him the money. Just wouldn't give him the money. Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot.
Bill Murray
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When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, "We're not gonna be friends until we get this done. If we don't get this done, we're never going to be friends, because if we don't get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed."
Bill Murray
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The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. You say, "Do you want a piece of this movie?" And he's got to sell this movie to get his money back. That's the brains of it; that's the genius of this financing. "You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you've got Germany."
Bill Murray
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My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, 'That's it-let's get the hell outta here.'
Bill Murray
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I don't know what my fans are going to think. It's definitely not what they're used to from me.
Bill Murray
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Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen.
Bill Murray
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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. So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I've ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up - motley isn't the word for that group. Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage - I had to bury myself in my napkin.
Bill Murray
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Disneyland. The world's biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
Bill Murray
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My brother lived in a dry gulch where the world of socks and shoes became extremely fascinating, and he felt that everyone needs a good pair of socks, and why not limit his gift giving to something that everybody needs? He thought that there was something humorous about it. So he gives socks.
Bill Murray
