As if you need them, here are 20 reasons to love Bill Murray.
1. Because this duet with Clint Eastwood happened.
2. Randomly turned up at someone’s house in Scotland and did their dishes.
3. He owns a book called Making Out In Japanese, full of dirty Japanese phrases. While shooting Lost in Translation in Japan, he’d use the book to hit on sushi chefs.
4. Rumours ran riot that he’d headbutted Charlies Angels director McG in the face during filming. Bill denied the accusation, but went on to say that McG “deserves to die” and that “he should be pierced with a lance”.
5. He is known for pulling pranks on strangers before revealing himself and saying “no one will ever believe you.”
6. He’ll gatecrash your drunken karaoke night and it’ll be amazing.
7. He doesn’t have an agent. If you want him to work for you, you call a number and have to leave your pitch as a voicemail message. He may or may not get back to you.
8. His cameo in Zombieland. ‘Nuff said.
9. This brutally honest quote:
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
10. This Liberace-inspired performance
11. And every other time he’s appeared on David Letterman’s show – doing so in a suit, his boxers, as Peter Pan, on crutches, in a football uniform, in purple sparkly spandex, as a cowboy…
12. He’s going to be Baloo in the new Jungle Book animation!
13. While shooting Ghostbusters in New York, Bill would get thousands of dollars in smallish notes and hand them out to homeless people.
14. Was considered for the lead on the Chocolate Factory remake, as Han Solo in Star Wars, and Buzz Lightyear. #icon
15. This was his Christmas card one year.
16. Oklahoma! is his favorite musical.
17. This awesome quote:
Don’t think about your errors or failures, otherwise you’ll never do a thing.
18. Groundhog Day
19. He crashed this couple’s engagement shoot.
20. He admitted that he cried at George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin’s wedding. “I did get a little. . . I got moist. I’ll get moist on you. I will. They are two wonderful people and all of the people there were wonderful so I’m very happy for them.” Nawwww.
Yes to all of this!