Harold Ramis Quotes
I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.
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Whoever's president I'm not going to be short on material.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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I've played every comedy club and every theatre across the country for the last 25 years and seen a lot of audience members from different ethnic persuasions.
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I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
