I think the only reason I've had the career life that I've had is that someone told me some secrets early on… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
There's definitely a lot of trash that comes with the prize of being famous. It's a nice gift, but there's a lot… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I'm… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott.… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
You know the theory of cell irritability?. If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You've got to give them a… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
“It's given many great performers their start, but more importantly, it's killed thousands of barely talented people and it's put them to death, and… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
You want my dark side? Have I ever stolen anything? Not so much intentionally. But I don't think it's so much stealing as... being… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body,… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
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,… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
