Quotes by Harold Ramis

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

“It was just amazing,”

“Dan has many interesting sidelines and hes fascinated by the world of paranormal. Its part of his family history, in fact, ... He has relatives he claims were spirit mediums. He also believes in alien visitation and there is some speculation that Dan is an alien. Hes so genuinely enthusiastic about the stuff. Thats what was on the page when he showed it to us.”

“Approaching it skeptically, I wanted to know if you were going to make a sincere scientific investigation, what would be the parameters of that,”

“As consultants, they actually delivered to us a fairly detailed scientific proposal that told us they would look for small changes in temperature and air pressure, as well as odors and vapors of different kinds, ... So, all of our equipment design was predicated on the what if? reality.”

“Plus Im not so sure Bill was wildly enthusiastic about putting the suit on again,”

“They both have this really explosive unpredictable energy. You just dont know what theyre going to do,”

“And then theres some certain physical similarities just in stature and the way they move. They move funny. Belushi used to just walk out onstage, audiences would laugh. And I see that in Jack.”

“The Ice Harvest.”

“I call it the Whoever Will Show Up Award. ”

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.

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

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

I never work just to work. Its some combination of laziness and self-respect.

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.

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.

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 dont want to get drafted. So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.

Life doesnt care about your vision. Stuff happens, and youve just got to deal with it. You roll with it; thats the beauty of it all.

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

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