Ivan Reitman Quotes
I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
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The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.
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I'm not much of a distance runner, more of a sprinter.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.
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I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
