All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
Bill Murray

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

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

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.
Bill Murray

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

I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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.
Bill Murray

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.
Bill Murray

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.
Bill Murray

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.
Bill Murray


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.
Bill Murray

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.
Bill Murray

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.
Bill Murray

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