Bill Murray Quotes

Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day.

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.

My back hurts. My legs ache. I'm only four!

The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.

I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.

I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren's dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.

Zombies dont mess with other zombies.

The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.

I think we're all sort of imprisoned by - or at least bound to - the choices we make... You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.

I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

You cannot pray them out of hell.

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

I act like a jerk sometimes.

I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired.'

I realize it's impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous.

Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.

If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.

If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.

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.

The only good thing about fame that I've gotten is I've gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I've gotten into a restaurant when I didn't have a suit and tie on. That's really about it.

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.

It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.

If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it's not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You've got to keep the energy up.

The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.

There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option.

I don't know what my fans are going to think. It's definitely not what they're used to from me.

And then depression set in....

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

You gotta want it.

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.

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