Bill Murray

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. ”

I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding. ”

Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired. ”

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

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them. ”

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. ”

This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with. ”

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. ”

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. ”

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did. ”