Zitat des Tages von Bill Murray:
I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.
'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.
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.
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.
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.
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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.
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.
Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.
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.
One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm a nut, but not just a nut.
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.
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.
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.
People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.
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.
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.
I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.
