5. Fed Up Of Executives Telling Him What To Say - Rick Moranis
The name Rick Moranis was never going to be synonymous with acting range - best remembered for a run of popular comedies, his background as a comedian in some way guaranteed he'd become typecast in a certain kind of role. But it's still fair to say that he embodied that role perfectly, and for a while his stardom was floating high. The control the studios began to exercise over the material he could use increased in tandem with his fame. Moranis said, "By the time I got to the point where I was "starring" in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. Im really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebodys precious words work." The loss of his wife to cancer and the increasing strain this put on his professional and personal life led Moranis to take a break from acting in the late 90s so that he could focus on raising his children. As he put it around the time, "I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it."