Rick Moranis
Rick Moranis
Frederick Allan "Rick" Moranisis a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter and songwriter. He came to prominence in the sketch comedy series Second City Televisionin the 1980s and later appeared in several Hollywood films, including Strange Brew, Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Little Shop of Horrors, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Parenthood, My Blue Heaven, and The Flintstones...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 April 1953
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
I have nine armchairs from which I can be critical.
For some reason I just started writing these songs. And I was singing them to a couple of friends on the phone. After I had three or four, they started saying to me that I should do something with them.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.
About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.
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.
Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.
Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.