Bill Murray has had quite the year.
He recently released Rock the Kasbah with Zooey Deschanel and Kate Hudson, and now he's getting ready to unveil a Christmas special on Netflix called A Very Murray Christmas, so it's no wonder that he's Vanity Fair's December cover star.
Writer Mitch Glazer takes you inside the crazy life of the Ghostbusters star, who has easily lived one of the coolest lives of all time. He has crashed engagement photos and he has starred in some of the most famous movies of all time, so how does a man like that manage to keep living with humility? Glazer uncovers it all, and E! News took away eight major lessons about the award winner.
1. The Murricane, created by Glazer, is probably the best nickname for Murray given his charismatic persona and random outbursts of excitement when it comes to his projects.
2. Bill Murray's "melancholy" movies and other jobs started to get to him on an emotional level, so that's when he decided to be "funny again."
3. He struggles to turn down an extra plate of onion rings just like all of us, but jokes that because he's an owner of a baseball team, he's an athlete.
4. He's made of two people: his inside voice and his outside voice, and the latter is "under-utilized" as a result of his fame. "But I don't feel that needy for the celebrity part of [fame]," he explains. "You have your inside voice, and you have your outside voice, like little kids. Well, my outside voice is the ‘Bill Murray' that people know. And my inside voice is—is me. And sometimes that voice is heard. I can speak it aloud, when I'm really at my best. You can hear my inside voice."
5. Bill "Billy" Murray was once the "new kid" on Saturday Night Live. You never think of stars as once being the new kid on the block, but they had to start somewhere right?
6. He is known for "The Stare," which has the "terrible, dead-eyed power to stun and confuse." Rick Ross has induced the stare.
7. He can turn lemons into lemonade in the drop of a hat. When the rapper didn't show up on time for filming, he somehow turned the scene into something better and even funnier—with the help of George Clooney and Miley Cyrus.
8. Bill Murray's jaw drops at the sight of Clooney.
Hear all about Bill Murray's passion for pranks.