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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. "

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" 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

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" 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. "

" People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "