Harold Ramis Quotes

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
Harold Ramis

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
Harold Ramis

Family, Time, Hard

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
Harold Ramis

Yourself, Important, Two

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
Harold Ramis

Win, Play, Else

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
Harold Ramis

Success, Someone, Nothing

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
Harold Ramis

Funny, Great, Big

As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
Harold Ramis

Work, Great, Art

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
Harold Ramis

Funny, Laugh, Him

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

Yourself, Hell, Else

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
Harold Ramis

Success, Failure, Childhood

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
Harold Ramis

Work, Done, Writer

I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
Harold Ramis

Happen, Everyone, Spirit

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
Harold Ramis

Life, Big, Sense

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

Good, Fun, Pretty

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

Before, Working, Read

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, Woman, Passion

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
Harold Ramis

Joke, Fart, Gratuitous

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

Funny, Someone, Down

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
Harold Ramis

Time, Almost, Films

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

Whatever, Might, Actor

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

Play, Old, Accept

Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.
Harold Ramis

Movie, Weekend, Films

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

Country, Pretty, College

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

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.
Harold Ramis

Trying, Matter, Comedic

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: November 21, 1944

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