Tom Shadyac
Tom Shadyac
Thomas Peter "Tom" Shadyacis an American comedian, director, screenwriter, producer, author and occasional film actor. Shadyac, who was the youngest joke-writer ever for comedian Bob Hope, is widely known for writing and directing the comedy films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty. In 2010, Shadyac departed from past comedic work to write, direct and narrate the documentary I Am, in which he explores his abandonment of a materialistic lifestyle following a bicycle accident in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth11 December 1958
CityFalls Church, VA
CountryUnited States of America
I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.
We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.
When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.
I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.
Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.
I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.
You send a message in everything you do. I'm always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.
As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.
If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.
I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.
Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.
Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.