Bill Murray Quotes
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Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them.
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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.
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I act like a jerk sometimes.
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That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
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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.
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I'm not an ungenerous person; I don't resent it. It's just sort of a head-scratcher.
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I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think.
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I think the only reason I've had the career life that I've had is that someone told me some secrets early on about living. You can do the very best you can when you're very, very relaxed, no matter what it is or what your job is, the more relaxed you are the better you are. That's sort of why I got into acting. I realized the more fun I had, the better I did it. And I thought, that's a job I could be proud of. It's changed my life learning that, and it's made me better at what I do.
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I count on the kindness of strangers.
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We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it...
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You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.
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You know...they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
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If Google doesn't know the answer, then it's not a question...
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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.
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I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so well-written that I don't have to improvise. I mean, I used to have to re-write whole movies; this is kind of nice.
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Love can be seeing that here we are and there's this world here.
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I think we're all sort of imprisoned by - or at least bound to - the choices we make... You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.
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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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Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
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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!
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I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired.'
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You can't think about what you're going to do. It just gets in the way. You have to be just available for life, otherwise you're not bringing anything to the party. So I don't lie awake thinking about what I'm going to do workwise. There's just too much going on.
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I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over?
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The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You've got to give them a year and a half, two years. They are getting so much smoke blown, and their whole world gets so turned upside down, their responses become distorted. I give everybody a year or two to pull it together because, when it first happens, I know how it is.