Harold Ramis Quotes
There was a moment when we were casting 'Groundhog Day' when Bill Murray was not at the top of my list. He'd been getting crankier and crankier. By the end of 'Ghostbusters II', he was pretty cranky. I thought, 'Do I want to put up with this for twelve weeks?'
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.
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waiting for a police assessment of the video, which of course I have seen.
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The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
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There was a moment when we were casting 'Groundhog Day' when Bill Murray was not at the top of my list. He'd been getting crankier and crankier. By the end of 'Ghostbusters II', he was pretty cranky. I thought, 'Do I want to put up with this for twelve weeks?'
