321 Quotes by Bill Murray

I’m just a potato that won’t quit. I’m a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I’ve got legs.

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.

We’re Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

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

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’ve got kids and that’s important. It’s funny, you think that there’s an expiration date on them and there just isn’t.

I’d sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.

I try to be available for life to happen to me. We’re in this life, and if you’re not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you’re available, life gets huge. You’re really living it.

The only good thing about fame that I’ve gotten is I’ve gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I’ve gotten into a restaurant when I didn’t have a suit and tie on. That’s really about it.