110+ Bill Murray Quotes On Comedic, Iconic And Charismatic

Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for his roles in Ghostbusters, Lost in Translation, and Groundhog Day. He has also starred in numerous other films, including Caddyshack, Stripes, and Kingpin. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Bill Murray on love, life, comedic.

Top 10 Bill Murray Quotes

1. People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
2. I'm a nut, but not just a nut.
3. 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.
4. Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.
5. 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.
6. Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.
7. Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
8. The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.
9. Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.
10. 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.

Bill Murray Image Quotes

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood. — Bill Murray

Bill Murray Short Quotes

• Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.
• If Google doesn't know the answer, then it's not a question
• Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's usually something unusual.
• I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
• Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
• Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
• I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think.
• Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.
• I'm not an ungenerous person; I don't resent it. It's just sort of a head-scratcher.
• I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.

Bill Murray Quotes About Love

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. — Bill Murray

I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over? — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

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." — Bill Murray

Love can be seeing that here we are and there's this world here. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

Bill Murray Quotes About Life

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. — Bill Murray

Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

I try to be available for life to happen to me. We're in this life, and if you're not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you're available, life gets huge. You're really living it. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

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. — 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

That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life. — Bill Murray

Bill Murray Quotes About People

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

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. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

When you act obnoxious towards people, like on a movie set, they say "we're ready for you" and I say "oh, go to hell, my feet hurt and my head aches." You want to have a margarita for lunch, and people like these little ADs and production assistants are like, "well, he's drinking again." — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

Disneyland. The world's biggest people trap, built by a mouse. — Bill Murray

Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down. — Bill Murray

Bill Murray Quotes About Work

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. — 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

I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me! — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

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

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great. — Bill Murray

You work, you get paid, you drink. — Bill Murray

It's a lot of work to read a crummy script. — Bill Murray

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

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation. — Bill Murray

Bill Murray Quotes About Feel

I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so well-written that I don't have to improvise. I mean, I used to have to re-write whole movies; this is kind of nice. — Bill Murray

You had to keep the mood up; you had to keep the tempo up. You had to keep the feeling of, "Hey, we're doing something that's really exciting. It's fun being with these people." And the more fun you have, the better you do it. — Bill Murray

Different vodkas have different effects. Some make you feel a little... poly-lingual. Some make you feel like you want to talk back to someone who's giving you a hard time. Some make you feel like lifting kettle bells. — Bill Murray

I feel like I'm a better person when I'm quieter. — Bill Murray

Eh, it's not that attractive to have a plan. I know that if I ever feel that I need to make a funny movie, I’ll figure out how to write one. I’ll get it done. If I ever get some ambition, I’m gonna get some shit done. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

Every moment that you share someone else's pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human. — 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

If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it's not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You've got to keep the energy up. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

Bill Murray Quotes About Movies

Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria! — Bill Murray

And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. — Bill Murray

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

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

My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, 'That's it-let's get the hell outta here.' — Bill Murray

Bill Murray Famous Quotes And Sayings

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood. — Bill Murray

There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey. — Bill Murray

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

Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him. — Bill Murray

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

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. — Bill Murray

You know...they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

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

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. — 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 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. — Bill Murray

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. - Stephen Leacockof Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good. — 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

And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet. — Bill Murray

We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world. — Bill Murray

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh. — Bill Murray

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 — Bill Murray

People confuse friendship and relaxation. It's incredibly important to be relaxed - you don't have a chance if you're not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different. — Bill Murray

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour. — Bill Murray

I'm just a potato that won't quit. I'm a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I've got legs. — Bill Murray

When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that's why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn't fall asleep. That gift I have still. — Bill Murray

We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it — Bill Murray

The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do. — Bill Murray

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. — 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 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

Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It's so challenging to live, and the people are so close among their own tribes, their own groups, that you can't rule them all, you can't get an accord from all of them. — Bill Murray

The first year I had money, I really went shopping. I got really caught up in it. I bought all my brothers sets of luggage, and I bought 'em winter coats from Giorgio Armani - winter coats. And I got a pair of socks from this brother. — Bill Murray

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

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

I have a brother who gives socks for Christmas. He gives socks. Every year, I get a pair of socks from him. — Bill Murray

The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. You say, "Do you want a piece of this movie?" And he's got to sell this movie to get his money back. That's the brains of it; that's the genius of this financing. "You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you've got Germany." — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

I really don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. — Bill Murray

I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year - they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards. So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I've ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up - motley isn't the word for that group. Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage - I had to bury myself in my napkin. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You're new and you're hot and things go wrong. — Bill Murray

The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive. — Bill Murray

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything. — Bill Murray

I count on the kindness of strangers. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat. — Bill Murray

Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn. — Bill Murray

I don't believe that you can give the same performance every take. It's physically impossible, so why bother? If you don't do what is happening at that moment, then it's not real. Then you're holding something back. — Bill Murray

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. — Bill Murray

Life Lessons by Bill Murray

1. Bill Murray's life lessons include the importance of taking risks and living in the moment. He encourages us to be open to new experiences and to not take ourselves too seriously.
2. Bill Murray also reminds us that it is important to stay humble and to be generous with our time and energy. He believes in the power of kindness and the importance of treating others with respect.
3. Finally, Bill Murray teaches us to enjoy the journey and to have fun along the way. He believes that life is an adventure and that it is important to make the most of every moment.