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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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Harold Ramis
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: November 21
Died: 2014
Died: February 24
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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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My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
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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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It doesn't take any longer to improvise 10 takes than it takes to shoot 10 takes of the same thing. It turns out to be just as responsible from a business point of view as anything else.
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You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
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My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
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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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I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.
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You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.
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At a certain point, you have to convince the actors that you've done the right thing. The way I work, if I can't convince them, I've got to move on. I can't coerce them or browbeat them.
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Groundhog Day was pretty clean. It may have to do with some puritanical feeling that comedy is a forbidden pleasure in a certain way. They make you laugh, and laughter is somehow an inferior emotion to tragedy.
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Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!
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I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
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Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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We tell our kids that policemen are good and God protects us and our country is noble, and at a certain point - and for some it comes quite early, five or six years old - we start to realize that it's all a facade.
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I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
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Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression.
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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.
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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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