Bill Murray

“I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.”

“There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.”

“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.”

“Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.”

“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.”

“When I work, my first relationship with people is professional.”

“I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.”

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

“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.”

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

“I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm a nut, but not just a nut.”

“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.”