Harold Ramis Quotes - Page 5

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• You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

  Harold Ramis

  Country, Feelings, Sides

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

  Harold Ramis

  Guy, Actors, Might

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

  Harold Ramis

  Taste And Judgment, Goes On, Firsts

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. May 13, 2003.

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• With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.

  Harold Ramis

  Character, Vacation, Serious

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. May 13, 2003.

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• I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

  Harold Ramis

  Reading, Quitting, Playboy

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• My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.

  Harold Ramis

  Summer, Country, Military

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

  Harold Ramis

  Fun, Candy, Rapport

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• I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

  Harold Ramis

  Fall, Thinking, Falling Down

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• I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.

  Harold Ramis

  Spiritual, Believe, Passion

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

  Harold Ramis

  Character, Interesting, Stories

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• My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

  Harold Ramis

  Jobs, Agreement, Play

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• I have no trouble selling out—I’m a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.

  Harold Ramis

  Believe, Want, Way

  "Comedy First" By Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. April 19, 2004.

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• Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Talking, Salary

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. May 13, 2003.

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• It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.

  Harold Ramis

  Gun, Play, Criminals

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May - November 2005.

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• We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

  Harold Ramis

  Laughing, Theater, Testing

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. May 13, 2003.

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• Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!

  Harold Ramis

  Money, Pay

  "Fictional character: Russell Ziskey". "Stripes", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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