Christopher Guest Quotes
Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I'm not a sun person.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
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I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
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I've done tons of guest spots and in parts where the character invariably dies or is dead.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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Mitt Romney understands the importance of Alaska as a leader in our country's energy production and I look forward to working with him on such an important economic and national security matter.
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All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
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You know, 'Star Wars' - even when it gets dark, it comes back to the light - it makes you feel good. I think families enjoy watching it and sharing in it.
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Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.
