Top 30 Rick Moranis Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

I pulled out of making movies in about ’96 or ’97.

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.

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!’

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.

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.

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.

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.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn’t miss making movies.

I have a problem with blogs – all the best writers benefit from edits.

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.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It’s the only thing that will save journalism.

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.’

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.

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.

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.

I have nine armchairs from which I can be critical.

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.

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.

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.

I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.

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.