Quotes by Bill Murray

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
– Bill Murray
But then there was a very strange moment when Pricilla actually left. Because you could feel Elvis. You could absolutely feel his presence everywhere. And when she left, it was almost like you could feel his real love went with her, as she rode out of the cemetery.
– Bill Murray
Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.
– Bill Murray
I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.
– Bill Murray
I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
– Bill Murray
I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
– Bill Murray
I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
– Bill Murray
I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.
– Bill Murray
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.
– Bill Murray
People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
– Bill Murray
The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.
– Bill Murray
Walking around the course that day, I saw how starved galleries are to be set free. It's not just the quiet, but also the golfer's tensions are mimicked. By physicalizing or simply acknowledging those tensions, you could effect crowd relaxation, warmth and sometimes laughter.
– Bill Murray
Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
– Bill Murray
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.
– Bill Murray
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.
– Bill Murray
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.
– Bill Murray
One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
– Bill Murray
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
– Bill Murray
I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.
– Bill Murray
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.
– Bill Murray
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.
– Bill Murray