Quotes by Rick Moranis - Page 1

What we see is what they're trying to sell us.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Sells
Trying
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Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Dumb
Evil
Triumph
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I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Making Movies
Pulled
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I have nine armchairs from which I can be critical.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Critical
Nine
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I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Flattering
Me Always Find
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A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Home
Decided
My Family
Years
Years Ago
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About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Blue
Bunch
Song
Years
About A Year
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I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Blogs
Benefit
Edit
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And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Couple
Missing
Years
Miss
Couple Years
Discovered
Making Movies
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I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Internet
Journalism
Wrong
Save
The Only Thing
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I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Alison
Rick
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Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Audio
Curves
Games
Guy
Video
Throw
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My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Growth
Lines
Taste
Doing My Own Own
Member
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I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Plans
Wind
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I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Cities
Different
Years
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On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Able
Couple
Hollywood
Hollywood Movies
Material
Missed
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Its just I fell into a bunch of movies that kind of fit in my life. It made sense to do them in the 80s. Folks who know me think its hilarious.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Fit
Kind
Thinking
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I was able to do a lot of music on 'SCTV,' and I was really lucky to do a musical; I got to sing the part of Seymour in 'Little Shop of Horrors.'
Rick Moranis / Actor
Horrors
Shop
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There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Beer
Discovering
Drinking
Always Will Never
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There's a gray area between Conservative and Orthodox people, for whom you don't screw around with the mezuzah, you don't mess with the holy melodies.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Conservative
Gray
Gray Area
Holy
Mess
Orthodox
Area
Around
Between
Melodies
Screw
Whom
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I don't think I've ever had a plan or direction for myself. I've actually made decisions based more on what I didn't want to do than what I wanted to do.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Decision
Thinking
Want
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What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Expensive
Nostalgic
Sell
Material
New Material
Repeating
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I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Changed
Generic
Nostalgic
Rock And Roll
Rocks
Television
Thinking
Early
Recall
Seemed
Start
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I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Country
Jazz
Listening
Opera
Rocks
Taste
Music Jazz Country
Country Music
Music Country Listening
Crossed
Music Country Jazz
Limit
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And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Advantage
Hair
Short Films
Thinking
Unfair
Worry
Vacuum
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The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Movie
Opportunity
Actors
Boring
Filmmaking
Not Interested
Life Opportunity Your
Actual
Actual Process
Life Opportunity Me
Provided
Slow
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The only type of music I don't like is Dixieland jazz. It's just a little too happy and noisy for me. I like intervals and spaces in my music. There's just something about Dixieland.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Intervals
Jazz
Noisy
Music Me Jazz
Just Something
Spaces
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This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel free to do and say whatever they want with no vetting, with no editing, with nothing.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Blogging
Editing
Stuff
Talk
Me Free People
Free
Bugging
Filter
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When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Movie
Actors
Democratic
Filmmaking
Say Anything
Thinking
Assume
Environments
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There are fans of some of the old movies that'll mention those, and there's people that have little kids that'll look at me and say, 'Wow, I just watched 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' 35,000 times, and here you are!'
Rick Moranis / Actor
Honey
Watched
Movies Look Me
Little Kids
Mention
Old Movies
Shrunk
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I have five television sets. (I like to think of them as a set of five televisions.) I have two DVR boxes, three DVD players, two VHS machines and four stereos. I have nineteen remote controls, mostly in one drawer.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Boxes
Machines
Nineteen
Drawer
Remote
Sets
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There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Frank
Humorous
Invention
Roger
Zappa
Genres
Jim
Long Tradition
Miller
Mothers
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The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Stay At Home
Time Home Dad
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Until 1982, Canada Day was known as Dominion Day. I always thought that had more of a ring to it. Beyond the zippy alliteration, it reminded us citizens that our domain of orderly domesticity was graced by the dominant power of our 'Dominus.'
Rick Moranis / Actor
Canada
Domain
Orderly
Ring
Reminded
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Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Kids
Travel
Airports
Handle
Hotel
Hotel Rooms
Parent
Rooms
Sabbatical
Shooting
Single Parent
Airport
Touch
Stopped
Walked
Young Kids
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Canada Day comes and goes modestly every year. Sure, there are retail sales promotions and a long weekend. But there isn't bluster or commodity in Canadian celebration. Canada isn't big on bunting. Or jet flyovers, fireworks, marching bands or military pomp.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Canada
Celebration
Commodity
Fireworks
Jet
Military
Retail
Weekend
Bands
Marching
Modestly
Promotions
Sales
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Like all teenagers in the early '60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We all thought we'd be rock stars. Then I got into comedy, but I'd always find a way to use my guitar, such as writing songs and doing musical parodies.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Hockey
Picked
Rock Stars
Teenagers
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I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five sinks, two with a view.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Bowls
Cups
Dishes
Five
Glasses
Hundred
Restaurants
Sauce
Sixteen
Soy
Three
Cookbooks
Mugs
Sink
View
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I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Manage
Parent
Single Parent
Making Movies
Raising
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Geddy Lee and I went to the same grade school. He moved away when we were still young, but I remember him like I do all my friends from back then. Then in 1982, Dave Thomas and I were approached to do a record as the McKenzie Brothers on Anthem Records, the same label that Rush was on.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Friends
Anthem
Dave
Moved
Remember
School
Young
All My Friends
Away
Back
Same
Brothers
Were
Still
Grade
Grade School
Him
Record
Label
Lee
Rush
Thomas
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When you're 5 ft. 5 in., have a round Jewish face and wear glasses and refuse to wear contacts, you're going to get offered certain parts. People thought of me as the nerdy guy, even in non-nerdy parts like 'Parenthood.' I didn't feel the need to change anything I was doing - I embraced it.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Certain
Glasses
Guy
Nerdy
Parenthood
Refuse
Jewish
Change Me People
Face
Contacts
Embraced
Round
Wear
Offered
Parts
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I am wary of sequels. I understand them from the studio's point of view, but the audience doesn't want more, they want better, and I thought the second 'Ghostbusters' was not very effective, it did not really work, so there's no reason to believe a third would. I'm more interested in new things.
Rick Moranis / Actor
New Things
No Reason
Point Of View
Sequels
Work Believe Better
Effective
Wary
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There's a song called 'Live Blogging the Himmel Family Bris.' I kind of went for it here in terms of - it was really fun to be explaining ritual circumcision in Nashville - a lot of brises are done in hospitals, but many are done in people's homes, and there's a lot of food, and a lot of leftovers.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Blogging
Explaining
Hospitals
Leftovers
Nashville
Ritual
Homes
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By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Executives
Impetus
Time Work Movies
By The Time
Work Time Movies
Funnier
Precious
Rewrite
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When I was a little kid, it was not uncommon for a cousin or an uncle, before they would even say 'Hello,' to gush, 'You know, your mother's brisket is just incredible; it's so good.' That was an inspiration for creating a love song in that well-worn terrain of the relationship between a Jewish boy and his mother.
Rick Moranis / Actor
Cousin
Hello
Inspiration
Little Kid
Terrain
Love Good Relationship
Jewish
Gush
Uncle
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For me music is pretty personal. I generally listen to it alone, and I've never been a lover of concerts. So I don't think I really bond with other people over music. That's not unique to music for me, either. I feel that way about film, television, art, everything. I read a book alone, so why wouldn't I listen to music alone?
Rick Moranis / Actor
Concerts
Alone Art Music
Bond
Lover
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