Bill Murray

“Let’s get one thing straight at the beginning. A lunar eclipse simply will not do. You may have seen a partial solar eclipse, but neither will that do. The sun is such a monster that until a few minutes before totality the light from the sun blasts right around the disk of the moon and the Earth is little changed. Annie Dillard wrote that the difference between a partial eclipse and a total one is the difference between kissing a man and marrying him. Just so. So people search out totality, no matter how remote the spot. And so we have come to Svalbard.- from Out in the Cold”

“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.”

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

“One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.”

“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.”

“You gotta want it.”

“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.”

“I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.”

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

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

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

“I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.”