Bill Murray Quotes

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Bill Murray

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 21, 1950

Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable.

Bill Murray

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.

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Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.

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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.

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

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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.

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I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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