Harold Ramis quotes

Harold Ramis was an American actor, director, and writer, best known for his work in comedy films. Contributions to movies like "Ghostbusters," "Groundhog Day," and "Caddyshack" have left a lasting impact on popular culture. He is remembered as a talented creator whose humor shaped generations of audiences. Here are 41 of his quotes:

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

We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

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

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

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

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

Harold Ramis

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

Harold Ramis

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

Harold Ramis

My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.

Harold Ramis

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

Harold Ramis

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

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 never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

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

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.

Harold Ramis

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

Harold Ramis

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

Harold Ramis

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

Harold Ramis

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

Harold Ramis

I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.

Harold Ramis

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

Harold Ramis