Quotes from Bill Murray

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.

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.

People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.

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.

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

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.

That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.

We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.

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.

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

You're supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you're trying to going up, you're trying to pull someone up at the same time.

I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.

Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.

I don't really read the reviews, but I remember one a long time ago I read that said that I had a face like a potato.

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.

I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.

Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

Love can be seeing that here we are and there's this world here.

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.

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.

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 have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

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.