Quotes By 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.

When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.

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.

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

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.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.

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'm a nut, but not just a nut.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

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

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.

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

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

My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.