Top 100 Bill Murray Quotes
#1. You know ... they say an elephant never forgets.
What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant.
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#2. When I feel like I'm stuck, I do something - not like I'm Mother Teresa or anything, but there's someone that's forgotten about in your life, all the time. Someone that could use an 'Attaboy' or a 'How you doin' out there.
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#3. Disneyland. The world's biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Love can be seeing that here we are and there's this world here.
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#8. Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen.
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#9. You can't think about what you're going to do. It just gets in the way. You have to be just available for life, otherwise you're not bringing anything to the party. So I don't lie awake thinking about what I'm going to do workwise. There's just too much going on.
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#10. Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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#11. I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song 'Love the One You're With'; there is something to that. It's not just make love to whomever you're with, it's just love whomever you're with.
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#12. Its Christmas Eve! Its the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.
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#13. I'm just a potato that won't quit. I'm a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I've got legs.
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#14. 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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#16. 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.
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#17. Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.
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#18. My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses
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#21. 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 self-demanding.
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#22. Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
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#23. 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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#24. This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.
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#25. Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.
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#26. One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
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#27. I would jump into the middle of the street and say, "excuse me, there's a Mercedes that's got to get through here." And I would push people out of the way, "get out of the way! Let him through!" Smacking their cars and stuff. Just like, "whack" and you just jump into it.
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#28. The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.
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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. Atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair was murdered. Jon Murray and Robin Murray-O'Hair were also murdered by individuals involved with the atheist organization.
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#32. 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.
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#33. My back hurts. My legs ache. I'm only four!
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#34. If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.
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#35. 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.
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#36. 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.
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#37. Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's usually something unusual.
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#38. 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.
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#39. It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.
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#40. I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think.
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#41. I'm just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that's what they pay me to do.
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#42. I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live.
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#43. The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe ...
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#44. Life is so damn short. For fuck's sake, just do what makes you happy.
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#45. I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you've got to study, and that wasn't going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn't going to work.
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#46. We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
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#47. Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
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#48. Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
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#49. I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.
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#51. 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.
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#52. Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you've met and you're like, 'Yep, I like this one,' and you just do stuff with them.
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#53. It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.
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#54. The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
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#55. 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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#56. 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.
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#57. But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.
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#58. 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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#59. I really don't know what's going to come out of my mouth.
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#60. If you have someone you think is the one, take them and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all over the world, to places that are hard to reach and hard to get out of. And when you land at JFK and you're still in love with that person, get married.
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#61. I don't answer fan mail. I don't have time for that. It's like hundreds of thousands of people who think they're going to become millionaires getting autographs from movie actors. I don't have time for those idiots. I've got stuff to do.
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#62. I feel like I'm a better person when I'm quieter.
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#63. Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
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#64. I try to be available for life to happen to me.
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#65. 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.
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#66. I try to be able for life to happen to me.
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#67. You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
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#68. I will be in Orlando during the atheist convention to do my best to counter the assaults upon Christ of the atheists. I also plan on running a large newspaper ad in the Orlando Sentinel addressed to the atheists and warning the Orlando area of the atheists' vile plans for their children.
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#69. I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
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#70. I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.
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#71. I'd sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.
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#72. 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.
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#73. To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."
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#74. Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.
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#75. You know how funerals are not for the dead, they're for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they're for the uncommitted.
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#76. I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.
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#77. Every moment that you share someone else's pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.
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#78. Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I'm just telling everyone that it's a wonderful place to go.
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#79. Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat.
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#80. The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.
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#81. I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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#82. I don't really read the reviews - but I remember one I read a long time ago that said I had a face like a potato.
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#83. It's the most terrifying day of your life, the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it, is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk, and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you'll ever meet in your life.
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#84. I've killed myself so many times, I don't even exist anymore.
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#85. 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.
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#86. There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option.
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#88. 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.
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#89. 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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#90. When I work, my first relationship with people is professional.
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#91. 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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#92. I think there's only so many people that can take care of themselves, and can take care of other people. And the rest of the people ... they're useful in terms of compost for the whole planet, you know.
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#93. Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, 'That would be interesting.' Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.
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#94. Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
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#95. I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.
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#96. I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired,'
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#97. 'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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#98. 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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#99. 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 a part of the flow of the universe. You know, where there's an exchange. It's positive. It's negative. There's an exchange of goods and services
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#100. I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.
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