Belushi (2020)

Harold Ramis: Self

Quotes 

• Harold Ramis : For John, it's a classic addictive pattern, you know, it's what makes an addict an addict: It's the expectation that if you just get more of your drugs that you will finally cross over some threshold or find some permanent satisfaction that you can't get high enough, you can't get famous enough, you can't get rich enough to kind of fill those - those great holes.

• Harold Ramis : [talking about Second City]  Before John came, I was the long haired guy. I was the hippie, the freak, the radical, or whatever. But, he was genuinely all those things. And it's kind of like what was happening with the whole generation, you know. He kind of shattered the limits and brought rock-n-roll to the show.

• Harold Ramis : John had always had appetites that were completely out of control for everything. But, I didn't start to worry about him until they were at the Universal Amphitheatre playing for 7,000 people. I looked at John on the stage and I thought he's on the most popular comedy television show of our generation... he's in the most successful comedy film - ever... and now he's on stage fronting an amazing band. My first thought was how great for him. My second thought was, knowing his appetites, I don' think he'll survive this.

• Harold Ramis : We really felt that we were in the presence of genius. John would have done anything for a laugh and, you know, that carried over into everything else. I mean, he was heroic in his consumption, you know. I both admired it and feared it and realized that it would take John *really* far. But, there was something safer and more comfortable about being me, than there was about being him.

• Harold Ramis : He became our strongman and instead of stealing every scene, he knew how to save any scene. Literally, he'd walk onstage and people would laugh