Bill Murray's Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.

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.

I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.

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.

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with.

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.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

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.

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.

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

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

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.