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.

Ivan Reitman

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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.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Fun
  • Water
  • Sports

• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Writers

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Story
  • Movies
  • Favorite

• Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Man
  • New

• I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Star

• 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.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Football
  • Soccer

• 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.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Power
  • Change
  • Wishes

• I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Day
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Universe

• 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.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Humanity

• 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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • World
  • War
  • Thought

• A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Trust

• I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Up
  • Think
  • Light

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • She
  • Mother

• Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Military
  • Impact

• 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.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • America
  • History
  • Starting

• Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Money
  • Creative
  • Theater

• Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Education
  • Nothing
  • Priority

• Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

  

  Al Stewart
  • School
  • Law
  • Cool

• Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up situation and making it good and making it real and just playing, just practicing and playing. Like the musicians that I played piano with: they never expect to be rich or famous, but they, for the sheer joy of it, play every day, all day.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • Love
  • Played
  • Musicians

• I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

  

  Ivan Reitman
  • Born
  • Humor
  • Sense