Bill Murray Quotes

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.

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People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.
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Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
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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.
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I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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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.
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I'm a nut, but not just a nut.
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Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
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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.
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And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.
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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.
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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.
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'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.
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Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.
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I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.
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I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.
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I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.
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I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.
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Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
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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.
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One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.
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One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
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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.
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