Bill Murray
We're creating a TV show of Scrooge, starring Jamie Farr, with Buddy Hackett as Scrooge. We're shooting in this Victorian set for weeks, and Hackett is pissed all the time, angry that he's not the center of attention, and finally we get to the scene where we've gotta shoot him at the window, saying, "Go get my boots," or whatever. The set is stocked with Victorian extras and little children in Oliver kind of outfits, and the director says, "All right, Bud - just give it whatever you want." And Hackett goes off on a rant. Unbelievably obscene.Collection: Children
[My brother] lived in a dry gulch where the world of socks and shoes became extremely fascinating, and he felt that everyone needs a good pair of socks, and why not limit his gift giving to something that everybody needs? He thought that there was something humorous about it. So he gives socks.Collection: Brother
Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat.Collection: People
Eh, it's not that attractive to have a plan. I know that if I ever feel that I need to make a funny movie, I’ll figure out how to write one. I’ll get it done. If I ever get some ambition, I’m gonna get some shit done.Collection: Attractive
I don't feel like it's pressure. It's more of an obligation - not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there's got to be a lightness in your leg. You have to be as light as you can be, and you don't have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.Collection: Mean
The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.Collection: Mother
I think we're all sort of imprisoned by - or at least bound to - the choices we make... You want to say no at the right time and you want to say yes more sparingly.Collection: Thinking
I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.Collection: Sitting
I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over?Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Kids
And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.Collection: Son
You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow.Collection: Light
The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.Collection: Home
I don't really read the reviews, but I remember one a long time ago I read that said that I had a face like a potato.Collection: Long
If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.Collection: Want
I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so well-written that I don't have to improvise. I mean, I used to have to re-write whole movies; this is kind of nice.Collection: Nice
I'm just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that's what they pay me to do.Collection: Guy
It's the most terrifying day of your life, the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it, is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk, and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you'll ever meet in your life.Collection: Love
Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.Collection: Groundhog Day
Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!Collection: Dog
I count on the kindness of strangers.Collection: Kindness
Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.Collection: Fields
I have a brother who gives socks for Christmas. He gives socks. Every year, I get a pair of socks from him.Collection: Brother
I know how to be sour. I know that taste.Collection: Taste
That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.Collection: Powerful
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.Collection: People
We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat itCollection: Ice Cream
You work, you get paid, you drink.Collection: Drink
Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.Collection: Past
The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.Collection: Kids
You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. [...] That's the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you'll actually witness, that you'll participate in. Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it's Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.Collection: Monday
Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.Collection: People
Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.Collection: Sweet
You're supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you're trying to going up, you're trying to pull someone up at the same time.Collection: Hands
Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.Collection: Vacation
I really don't know what's going to come out of my mouth.Collection: Intuition
I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live.Collection: Thinking
Every moment that you share someone else's pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.Collection: Pain
And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.Collection: Money
Its Christmas Eve! Its the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be.Collection: Christmas
It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.Collection: Artist
You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.Collection: Be Good
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.Collection: New York
I'm just a potato that won't quit. I'm a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I've got legs.Collection: Eye
If Google doesn't know the answer, then it's not a questionCollection: Google
It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.Collection: Being Yourself
Buddy Hackett [was] talking - this is Hackett, not me - about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families ... the look of absolute horror. He's going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It's just total horror, and the camera's still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, "Anything else, Bud?"Collection: Children
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.Collection: Thinking