Harold Ramis Quotes

• You just make sure you don’t screw it up. It’s going to work as long as you don’t mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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• We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

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• 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.

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• There’s a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it’s a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.

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• The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

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• The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

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• That’s one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn’t catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

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

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• No matter what I have to say, I’m still trying to say it in comedic form.

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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.

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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.

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• My characters aren’t losers. They’re rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else’s rules.

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• 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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Harold Ramis (35)

Birth:	21st November, 1944
Death:	24th February, 2014
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Harold Allen Ramis was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an American actor, director, screenwriter, procucer and comedian. His role in several films include: Stripes,  Ghostbusters, Baby Boom, Stealing Home, Ghostbusters II, Groundhog Day, Airheads, Love Affair, Orange County, I'm with Lucy, The Last Kiss, Knocked Up, and Year One. He directed several films include: Caddyshack, National Lampoon's Vacation, Club Paradise, Groundhog Day, Stuart Saves His Family, Multiplicity, Analyze This, Bedazzled, Analyze That, The Ice Harvest, and Year One. He produced several films include: Groundhog Day, Multiplicity, Bedazzled, and Year One. He wrote several films include: National Lampoon's Animal House, Meatballs, Caddyshack, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Back to School, Club Paradise, Caddyshack II, Ghostbusters II, Groundhog Day, Analyze This, Bedazzled, Analyze That, and Year One.

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