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Bill Murray has been on my mind recently. We talked about my love for him at work recently, on Sunday he teamed up with D.A. Points (yes that’s a name) to win the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am title in Pebble Beach (yes that’s a thing), and then that guy from Indianola won that PBA title this weekend. Which reminded me of Kingpin. All signs were pointing to me posting this.
I love Bill Murray. You ask me to name my favorite actor of all time, and I will tell you, it’s Bill Murray. I’ve always loved him. His sense of humor is always relatable to me. I think, in a way, it reminds me of the humor of my family. So some of my favorite movies are movies starring Bill Murray. My top BM movies are What About Bob, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Groundhog Day, and Lost in Translation. I know, I know, he has been in several other great films like Caddyshack, Broken Flowers, Kingpin, Scrooged, and some others that I’m not thinking of off the top of my head right now. And while these are all good in their own right, the first list I named are movies that I watch more frequently. So today, I thought I would do a tribute to my love of Bill Murray.
These are some of my favorite lines from BM movies:
What About Bob?
BM: Bob Wiley
Bob Wiley: There are 2 types of people in this world: those who like Neil Diamond and those who don’t.
Bob Wiley: [eating corn] Oh, Fay, this is so scrumptious. Is this hand-shucked?
Bob Wiley: Isn’t this a breakthrough, that I’m a sailor? I sail? I sail now?
The Royal Tenenbaums
BM: Raleigh St. Clair
Medical Student: Can the boy tell time?
Raleigh: Oh, my Lord, no!
Raleigh: [Into tape recorder, softly] Dudley suffers from a rare disorder combining symptoms of amnesia, dyslexia, and color-blindness, with a highly acute sense of hearing.
Dudley Heinsbergen: [from adjoining room] I’m not color blind, am I?
Raleigh: I’m afraid you are.
Lost in Translation
BM: Bob Harris
Charlotte: Why do they switch the r’s and the l’s here?
Bob: Uh… for yuks. You know? Just to mix it up.
Bob: They have to amuse themselves, ’cause we’re not making them laugh.
Rushmore
BM: Herman Blume
Max Fischer: So you were in Vietnam?
Herman Blume: Yeah.
Max Fischer: Were you in the shit?
Herman Blume: Yeah, I was in the shit.
Kingpin
BM: Ernie McCracken
Ernie McCracken: You’re on a gravy train with biscuit wheels.
Ernie McCracken: Do me a favor, will you? Would you mind washing off that perfume before you come back to our table?
Broken Flowers
BM: Don Johnston
The Kid: Are you gangster?
Don Johnston: No. I wish.
Don Johnston: [to his neighbour's young daughter, about her dad] Keep your eyes open… he might be Dolemite.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
BM: Steve Zissou
Steve Zissou: Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I’m going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.
Steve Zissou: Don’t point that gun at him, he’s an unpaid intern.
Steve Zissou: Wolodarsky, go get the keys to that fishing boat, and throw them in the water. No, wait. They might have another set. Just blow it up.
Jane Winslett-Richardson: [about her baby] In twelve years, he’ll be eleven and a half.
Steve Zissou: [pause] That was my favorite age.
Steve Zissou: [introducing his 'son' Ned to Oseary Drakoulias only a few seconds after Steve himself met Ned] Oseary, this is probably my son Ned.
Groundhog Day
BM: Phil Conners
[to Rita about Phil]
Larry: Did he actually refer to himself as "the talent"?
Phil: For your information, Hairdo, there is a major network interested in me.
Larry: Yeah, that would be the Home Shopping Network.
Ned: So what are you doing for dinner?
Phil: Umm… something else.
Phil: I don’t suppose there’s any chance of a espresso or cappuccino?
Mrs. Lancaster: [confused look] Oh, I don’t know…
Phil: [turns away, to self] … how to /spell/ espresso or cappuccino.
Phil: Can I have another one of these with some booze in it?
Rita: Do you every have déjà vu?
Phil: Didn’t you just ask me that?
So, who are your favorite actors? Do they even compare to Bill Murray?
Kind of disappointed there was no mention of Ghostbusters… that was obviously his best work.
I’m sorry Jaytron. I did draw the Ghostbusters circle in the illustration. But it has been so long since I’ve watched the movie. I loved it as a kid, though.
Ernie McCracken’s combover. That is all.
Other actors I enjoy almost everything they are in: George Clooney (<3), Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H Macy, Simon Cowell, Justin Bieber's movie, Dan Aykroyd in Yogi Bear, The "That I do, sir" guy featured on The Soup, Two and a Half Men, George Foreman Grill, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Boba Fett.
I believe your first three answers, Josh.
Love the poster, Em! I think Rushmore has to be my favorite Bill Murray movie. His lines that stand out to me from that movie are: “Ronny or Donny… I can’t tell the difference any more.” When one of his kids hits him. And also when he checks into the hotel and tells the clerk that he will be staying “Indefinitely. I’m being sued for divorce.”
Good stuff! Comic genius!
Oops! “Sued for divorce” is Gene Hackman!
Normally you’re always right, Josh, but I’d like you to prove this one to me.
I think you are right Jess.
Oooooooooops again. I was wrong. What does Royal Tenenbaum say?
“How many bodies do we have buried here?” Or “your mother was a terribly attractive person”… something like that?
did you know zombieland had a really good bill murray part. i saw it once and was amused at how the movie didn’t take itself seriously, then bill murray showed up and everything got better
I’ve always wanted to see Zombieland purely because Bill Murray was in it!
Great poster. Mr. Murray is brilliant. Dad is totally correct and Bill is fantastic as himself in Zombieland. Personally, my favorite Bill scene isn’t even a spoken line but the scene in Rushmore when he stuffs the little kids playing basketball while talking on the telephone stalking the teacher. Bill at his best.
Great stuff Travis
I’d forgotten about that part in Rushmore, Travis! What a great scene!
From Groundhog Day,
Phil: You weren’t in broadcasting or journalism?
Rita: Uh unh. Believe it or not, I studied 19th-century French poetry.
Phil: [laughs] What a waste of time!
…
Rita: Believe it or not, I studied nineteenth-century French poetry.
Phil: [talks in French]
Rita: You speak French?
Phil: Oui.
I love those lines too Jacob!
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