Famous quotes by Actors

"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, Actor

"I've been directing for 25 years, almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful"

Harold Ramis, Actor

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

Harold Ramis, Actor

"I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down"

Harold Ramis, Actor

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

Harold Ramis, Actor

"I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House"

Harold Ramis, Actor

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

Harold Ramis, Actor

"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, Actor

"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, Actor

"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, Actor

"I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect"

Harold Ramis, Actor

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

Harold Ramis, Actor

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

Harold Ramis, Actor

"Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies, and my friends work hard, and we're trying to make people laugh, and I'm very proud of that"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"Well, I have a microphone, and you don't, so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, what are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff!"

Adam Sandler, Actor

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