All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.
I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.
I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.
In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.
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.
The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.
Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
When he first read the script for the film Rushmore (1998), he said that he wanted to be in it so badly, that he would do it for free.
He and Lorenzo Music have both played Peter Venkman in the Ghost Busters franchise. Both have also contributed to the voice of Garfield in the Garfield franchise.
He is 6'1" (1.85 m) tall.
His role of Bob Harris in Lost in Translation (2003) was written specifically by Sofia Coppola, for him. Once he read the script, he immediately agreed to do the film.
He was reportedly paid $9,000,000 for his role in Groundhog Day (1993).
His performance as Phil Connors in the film Groundhog Day (1993) earned him the #48 spot on Premiere Magazine's "100 Greatest Performances of All Time" (2006).
Has claims to have no agent, business manager, or lawyer. He also doesn't travel with an entourage.
He co-owns the Murray Brothers Caddyshack restaurant in St. Augustine, Florida with his brothers Brian, Joel and John.
Bill is ranked #18 in Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time for his role of Carl Spackler in the 1980 film Caddyshack.
He is a member of The Goldklang Group, along with Van Schley, Mike Veeck, and Jimmy Fallon. The group owns 6 minor league baseball teams: the St. Paul Saints, Brockton Rox, Charleston RiverDogs, Fort Myers Miracle, Hudson Valley Renegades, and the Evansville Otters. They also run the Portland Beavers.
Bill received the Sons of the Desert Annual Comedy Performer Award on April 19th, 1997.
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