Rick Moranis Quotes
I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it.
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.
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I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
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She loved all her children. If they were upset, she was upset about them. She would buy dolls for the girls and footballs for the boys. She even made them trophies.
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To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.
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It's nice to be given a role where you can really find the strength from within, as a woman, and to be heard.
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Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.
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It's not about mainstream global domination. I make clothes that I can't find. I made a few pieces and Lupe Fiasco bought a pair of trousers I'd made, and a few other artists picked some up.
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I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it.
