Christopher Guest Quotes
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Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
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There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.
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'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'
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Satan's greatest fear is that you would believe what God said about you.
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India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
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I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.
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People ask me, 'What's your next film?' And I never know.
