A biography for Bill Murrayhasn’t been written yet.
“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 don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.”
“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 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.”
“Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable.”
“Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.”
“When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.”
“And then depression set in....”
“The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.”
“And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.”
“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.”
“Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.”
“I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.”
“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 don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.”
“One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.”
“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.”