Harold Ramis Quotes
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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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.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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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.
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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.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.
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There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.
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I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
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When I speak, my Urdu isn’t very good but when I sing I make sure there are no flaws in my diction.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
