Bill Murray People Quotations

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I would jump into the middle of the street and say, "excuse me, there's a Mercedes that's got to get through here." And I would push people out of the way, "get out of the way! Let him through!" Smacking their cars and stuff. Just like, "whack" and you just jump into it.

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.

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.

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.

Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat.

If people really want to find you, they find you.

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.

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.

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.

I realize it's impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous.

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

Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.

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.

You know the theory of cell irritability?. If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba, the cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That's kind of what it's like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.

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

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.

I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he's retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you're retired, people don't bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.

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

Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen.

When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, "We're not gonna be friends until we get this done. If we don't get this done, we're never going to be friends, because if we don't get the job done, then the one thing we did together that we had to do together we failed."

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

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.

People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.