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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I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
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I think there's a danger that some people look at the success of my first movie as a fluke. So I want to make sure that my second film is an even bigger success. Then if I direct my third movie and it's terrible, it'll be okay.
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I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a cafe.
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I had a mother who prayed for me, and prayer changes everything.
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Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
