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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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" 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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked. "

" 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. "

Bill Murray

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

" 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. "

" My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can. "

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

" I'm a nut, but not just a nut. "

Bill Murray

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" 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. "

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

Bill Murray

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" Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired. "

Bill Murray

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "