Harold Ramis Quotes
Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I couldn't get a date, but I couldn't be quite sure how unattractive I'd become. I was still friendly; I made jokes, and in my mind, if I saw a woman smiling at me... I still had a chance. I did not.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
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When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.
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We must make our world safer by rooting out the evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who mean no harm.
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Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to myself, 'Should I not be myself,' but I won't do that.
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Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
