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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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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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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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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Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
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I've choreographed all of my movies.
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My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.
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If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
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You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.
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My mom was a single parent.
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I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
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You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.
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Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.
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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.
