Harold Ramis Quotes

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

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• When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

  

  Laura Prepon
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  • Try

• There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • You
  • Person
  • Then

• Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
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  • Want
  • House

• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  

  Yogi Berra
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  • Sports
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• I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

  

  Edgar Bergen
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• Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

  

  Kanye West
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• Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
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• With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.

  

  Barry Bonds
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• Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

  

  Macy Gray
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• What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.

  

  Adam Green
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• There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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  • Reason
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• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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  • Learn

• The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
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  • Die

• Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

  

  Ted Nugent
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• If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
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  • Society
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• The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.

  

  Felix Dennis
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  • Financial
  • Discover

• I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.

  

  Jason Patric
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• So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it [footage] out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work, and it's a water movie in 3D with a kid, animals. So the more I do that, the more I'm scared of "What if it doesn't go the way we want it?" But we had to do that to meet the budget, otherwise we wouldn't even have a start-date.

  

  Ang Lee
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• Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

  

  Dean Koontz
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• The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

  

  Harold Ramis
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