Quotes from Bill Murray

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

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

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.

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.

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.

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow.

If people really want to find you, they find you.

I love the financing. It's fun to do studio movies, too. I think you should do both. You don't want to be this, "He's an independent film guy." It sounds like, "He makes his own dresses."

Drinking again? Go to hell. All I ever do is make some movies that made a lot of money now leave me alone, I want to have some fun.

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

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.

My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are.

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

You work, you get paid, you drink.

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

The only way we'll ever know what it's like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That's where home is.

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 it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.

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