Quotes from Bill Murray

I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

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.

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.

You gotta want it.

I count on the kindness of strangers.

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.

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

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.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

Life is a game, and it's much more fun if you play it as your own game, so stay light and loose and relaxed.

Be available for life to happen.

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.