Rick Moranis Quotes

• I don’t limit my taste. There’s some jazz that I like and there’s some opera. I’ve been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

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  Tags in Music, Over, Rock

• A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Home, Wanted

• And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

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  Tags in Little, Short, Making

• About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

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  Tags in Year, Songs

• I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.

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• And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn’t miss making movies.

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• I pulled out of making movies in about ’96 or ’97.

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Making, Pulled

• I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.

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  Tags in Today, Best, Same

• I think that I recall the nostalgic ’50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

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  Tags in Everything, Start, Early

• There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.

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  Topics in College

  Tags in Another, Kid

• The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I’m not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

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  Tags in Boring, Process, Interested

• On the last couple of movies I made – big-budget Hollywood movies – I really missed being able to create my own material.

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  Tags in Made, Process, Last

• Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn’t handle the travel. I’m a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn’t working for me. So I stopped.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Single, Walking, Young

• When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don’t want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

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  Tags in Best, Anything, Thinking

• My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

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  Tags in Personal, Line

• Well, whether it’s on film or on TV, you don’t want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

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  Tags in Film, Whether

• What we see is what they’re trying to sell us. It’s not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it’s less expensive than new material.

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  Tags in True, Trying

Rick Moranis (17)

Birth:	18th April, 1953
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actor

About

Frederick Allan "Rick" Moranis is a retired Canadian actor. Moranis came to prominence around 1980 in the sketch comedy show Second City Television, and later appeared in several Hollywood films including Strange Brew, Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Little Shop of Horrors, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Little Giants, Parenthood, The Flintstones and My Blue Heaven. He is the widower of Anne Moranis.

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