Harold Ramis Quotes

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

  Harold Ramis

  Character, Winning, Play

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psycology Today Interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 01, 1996.

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• Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

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  Stripes, Get Away

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

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• Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.

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  Trying, Rooms, Next

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

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  Directors, Done, Claims

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• You can't love somebody into a state of mental health.

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  Mental Health, States

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.

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  Leader, Accomplish, Contempt

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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

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  Relationship, Professional Relationships, Enjoy

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

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• Life has all of these contradictory feelings and contradictory results. People spend their whole lives struggling to get what they think they want, and even if they get it, they find that it's either not what they wanted, or it comes with so many unwanted consequences. We're always shut off from pure joy.

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  Struggle, Thinking, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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.

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  Fun, Two, Important

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• Well, for me, it's the relationship between comedy and life - that's the edge I live on, and maybe it's my protection against looking at the tragedy of it all. It's seeing life in balance. Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny, if seen from a comedic point of view.

  Harold Ramis

  School, Views, Balance

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else.

  Harold Ramis

  Littles, Knows, Bits

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Ive never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of the movie, ... What the Ghostbusters represented was the triumph of human courage and human ingenuity. People create their own monsters. Our fears come from within us, not outside.

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  People, Monsters, Triumph

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• I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.

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  Meaningful, Looks

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

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  Caring, Ties, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.

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  Pain, People, Desire

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

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  Men, Immature, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

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  Believe, People, Answers

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

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  Hair, Acting, Actors

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression.

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  People, Anxiety, Spectrum

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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

  Harold Ramis

  Respect, Self, Laziness

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

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• If people work together, if they can keep a cooperative spirit and use their ingenuity and balance it all with good humor and good will, then there's nothing to be afraid of. That's the sappy part of it, ... On the other hand, every Halloween for many years when my kids were trick-or-treating I would put on my 'Ghostbusters' jumpsuit with a police flashlight to protect all the kids from ghosts.

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  Halloween, Kids, Hands

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• Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Fleeting

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.

  Harold Ramis

  Laughing, Great Things

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• Analyze This is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing.

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  Writing, Play, Good Movie

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

  Harold Ramis

  Names, Ambitious, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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