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
My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.
On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
What we see is what they're trying to sell us.
I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.
I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.
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.
Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
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.
About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.
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.
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.
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.
When we were producing the Great White North comedy album, my experience in radio told me I needed two singles in order to get enough airplay.