Christopher Guest Quotes
The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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Politics is a lot tougher than physics.
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The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time.
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Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
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A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.
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The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.
