Bill Murray Quotes

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

Some people are very good at being themselves and being very natural on screen or being very sexy or handsome or whatever. I like that, and I aspire towards that, but I don't know if I always make it. I work very hard.

The most important thing I learned from Dad about show business was never take myself seriously and never stop having fun with my craft.

Some people work hard to be something that they're not, and I don't work at all, I'm just me. And that can bother anybody I'm not working nearly as hard as the other guys, and they don't like it.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one else has that. That's a unique, powerful thing to hold.

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

I wouldn't say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with.

You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

I want people to get a better sense of who I am, whether they've seen every video or zero videos.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.