"It just doesn't matter!": The philosophy of Bill Murray

He’s done everything from dropping Dalai Lama riffs in the middle of Caddyshack to scaling a mountain to seek enlightenment in The Razor’s Edge, while even taking a few years off from acting to study philosophy at the Sorbonne.

It’s no accident, then, that so many of his films—beneath Murray’s veneer of world-weariness and sarcastic asides—recall the same existential questions that have been posed by sages since the dawn of the word “why.” Starting with the Buddhism of Groundhog's Day, here are some of Murray’s deepest thoughts, couched in some of his funniest movies...