Explore Quotes by Bill Murray

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.

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.

I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired.'

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

Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time.

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

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.

The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.

People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.

You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.