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Harold Ramis Biography

Harold Allen Ramis /ˈreɪmɪs/ (November 21, 1944 – February 24, 2014) was an American actor, director, writer, and comedian. His best-known film acting roles were as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989) and Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981); he also co-wrote those films. As a director, his films include the comedies Caddyshack (1980), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Groundhog Day (1993), and Analyze This (1999). Ramis was the original head writer of the television series SCTV, on which he also performed, as well as a co-writer of Groundhog Day and National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). The final film that he wrote, produced, directed and acted in was Year One (2009).

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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.

Agreement, Correctly, Jobs, Play, Wholeheartedly

I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that.

Cards, Life, Marriage, Platitudes, Usual, Want

As much as I liked acting for its playfulness and the reward of hearing big laughs wash over you on a stage, I always felt I should do something that I could control.

Laughing, Over You, Acting, Felt, Control, Wash

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

Candy, Fun, John, Pretty, Rapport

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

Fart, Gratuitous, Joke, Jokes, Think, Thinking

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.

Forbidden, Groundhog Day, Laugh, Laughing, Laughter, Way

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

Bigger, Comedies, Comedy, Ideas, Strike

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.

Big, Life, Moral, Useful, Want Something, Years

If people offer me decent roles in good films, of course I'll take it. But I just didn't like the actor lifestyle. You end up focusing all your energy on trying to get parts you don't even want.

Decent, Energy, Films, People, Roles, Trying

I think of myself as a real writer, not just someone who dabbles in it, so I deserve some credit.

Credit, Deserve, Real, Thinking

When you grow up in Chicago, your whole family is counting on you to go to college and do something distinguished. The last thing you're thinking is that you're going to make a career in show business.

Career, College, Counting, Growing Up, Make, Thinking

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.

Comedy, Laughing, Life, Perceive, Tragedy

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.

Ask, Fun, Important, Neuroses, Said, Two

When I've written for Bill Murray - I've written six films for him - people would read it and say, "Oh, that's so perfectly Bill. " He'd read it and say, "Are you kidding? I can't say these words. " So it's all about perception.

Bills, Kidding, Murray, People, Perception

I've tried to stay away from mild satire. I want an audience to feel something more powerful for their ten bucks. If they're going to spend two hours with me, and trust me to lead them around, I'd like to take them someplace special.

Bucks, Powerful, Special, Stay, Take, Two

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.

Camp, Country, Films, Institutional, Military, Summer

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

Arrested, Comedy, Immature, Men, Young

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.

Enough, Guilty, People, Wish, Work, Working

I've got to find a compromise where I don't feel compromised. I've got to find something equally good that they don't feel uncomfortable with. At a certain point, it's no longer about what I thought was right, but it's about this new discovery that happens with the actors. It's nice when the actor is also a writer.

Nice, Discovery, Actors, Thought, Compromise

Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!

Goddamnit, Money, Pay, Travel, Winnebago

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