Tom Shadyac
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Biography
Thomas Peter Shadyac is an American film director, producer, and writer. The youngest joke-writer ever for comedian Bob Hope, Shadyac is widely known for writing and directing the comedy films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), The Nutty Professor (1996), Liar Liar (1997), Patch Adams (1998), and Bruce Almighty (2003).
"I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world."
"I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community."
"In movies you can shoot a guy 3,000 times and get a 'PG-13', but if you say the 'F' word twice it's automatically an 'R'. I'll let that be its own comment."
"I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it."
"My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese."
"Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done."
"Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done."
"My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese."
"I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it."
"The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle."
"We are what make up society."
"The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle."
"Technology is not good, it's neutral."
"Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it."