Murray Musings

The great Bill Murray is 73 today. He is in some of my favorite films (Stripes, Caddyshack, Groundhog Day, etc…). There are so many great stories about him and many make you wonder if they are true or not.

In celebration, I stumbled on some great quotes from Bill and thought I’d share:

“Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.”
“This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.”
“The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30 percent of their ice cream.”
“People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise.”
“A movie like ‘Caddyshack,’ I can walk on a golf course, and some guy will be screaming entire scenes at me and expecting me to do it word for word with him. It’s like, ‘Fella. I did that once. I improvised that scene. I don’t remember how it goes.’ But I’m charmed by it. I’m not like, ‘Hey, knock it off’. It’s kind of cool.”
“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.”
“I made a lot of mistakes and realized I had to let them go. Don’t think about your errors or failures. Otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.”
“Every moment that you share someone else’s pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.”
“The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.”
“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.”
“Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying. The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.”
“The last time doesn’t exist. It’s only this time. And everything is going to be different this time. There’s only now.”
“Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.”
“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.”
“If you can consciously let yourself get taken and see where you go, that’s an exercise. That’s discipline. To follow the scent. Let yourself go and see what happens. That takes a bit of courage.”
“Friendship is so weird. You just pick a human you’ve met and you’re like, ‘Yep, I like this one,’ and you just do stuff with them.”
“Life is a game, and it’s much more fun if you play it as your own game, so stay light and loose and relaxed.”