--- title: "Best Tom Shadyac Sayings" description: "Thomas Peter Shadyac is an American film director, producer, and writer. Browse 83 Tom Shadyac quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b146/author-tom-shadyac-8145.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Tom Shadyac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b146/author-tom-shadyac-8145.jpg) # Tom Shadyac (1958) Film Director United States **83** quotes in **544** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Tom Shadyac is a film director from the United States, best known for *Life's Operating Manual*. ## Quick Facts About Tom Shadyac Born December 11, 1958 Nationality United States Profession Film Director Notable works Life's Operating Manual ## About Tom Shadyac 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). In 2010, Shadyac retired from the comedy genre and wrote, directed, and narrated his own documentary film I Am, that explores his abandonment of a materialistic lifestyle following his involvement in a bicycle accident three years earlier. ## Quotes by Tom Shadyac · Page 3 > [When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-shadyac/when-you-do-something-in-a-nonviolent-way-people-will-die-and-there/) [Tom Shadyac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-shadyac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fd/tom-shadyac-8145_casualties_when-you-do-something-in-a-nonviolent-wa_930828.jpg) > [The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-shadyac/the-second-we-define-someone-as-a-democrat-or-republican-it-creates-a/) [Tom Shadyac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-shadyac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddf/tom-shadyac-8145_creates_the-second-we-define-someone-as-a-democr_1311634.png) > [Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-shadyac/someone-asked-me-the-other-day-what-s-the-biggest-influence-on-your/) [Tom Shadyac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-shadyac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70b/tom-shadyac-8145_actually_someone-asked-me-the-other-day-what-s-th_1208931.jpg) ## Tom Shadyac by topic [Love (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/tom-shadyac/) [Life (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/tom-shadyac/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-shadyac/#itemlist", "name": "Tom Shadyac Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. 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