You have to live your life with a certain blind confidence that if it's your destiny to succeed at these things, it will happen,
if you just continue to follow a straight path, to do you work as
conscientiously and as creatively as you can, and to just stay open to
all opportunity and experience. There's a performing motto at Second
City...to say yes instead of no. It's actually an improvisational
rule…It's about supporting the other person. And the corollary to that
is if you concentrate on making other people look good, then we all have
the potential to look good. If you're just worried about yourself—How am I doing? How am I doing?—which
is kind of a refrain in Hollywood, you know, people are desperately
trying to make their careers in isolation, independent of everyone
around them.
And I've always found that my career happened as a result of a
tremendous synergy of all the talented people I've worked with, all
helping each other, all connecting, and reconnecting in different
combinations. So…identify talented people around you and then instead of
going into competition with them, or trying to wipe them out, make
alliances, make creative friendships that allow you and your
friends to grow together, because someday your friend is going to be
sitting across a desk from you running a movie studio. ~ Harold Ramis
This advice was given to young filmmakers but it applies to all. When i look at my career as a makeup artist all the best opportunities have come from working with others. Thank you Harold for your words of wisdom and making movie magic Ghostbusters will always be one of my favorites.
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| Who Ya Going to Call?? |
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| GHOSTBUSTERS!! |
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| "I Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts" |
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RIP Harold & thanks for sharing laughter with the world.
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