“Acting is all about big hair and funny props… All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.”
— Harold Ramis
“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.”
— Harold Ramis
“Life doesn’t care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you’ve just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that’s the beauty of it all.”
— Harold Ramis
“I had this ‘War and Peace’ thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, ‘I really don’t want to get drafted.’ So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.”
— Harold Ramis
“The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period – there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.”
— Harold Ramis
“I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.”
— Harold Ramis
“I never work just to work. It’s some combination of laziness and self-respect.”
— Harold Ramis
“How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.”
— Harold Ramis
“No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.”
— Harold Ramis
“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
“I never work just to work. It’s some combination of laziness and self-respect.”
– Harold Ramis
“Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.”
– Harold Ramis
“Acting is all about big hair and funny props… All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.”
– Harold Ramis
“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
“I’m not a believer in the pratfall. I don’t think it’s funny just to have someone fall down.”
– 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
“How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.”
– Harold Ramis