Christopher Guest Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
-
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
-
It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
-
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
-
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
-
Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
-
I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
-
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
-
I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
-
Politics is a good thing!
-
I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
-
In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
-
There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
-
Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
-
Google never knew how successful key words would be.
-
We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'
-
Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
-
You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
-
To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great object to which our inquiries are directed.
-
I don't have a great voice or even a good voice.
-
The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.
-
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
-
I never want to go back and remix old records, either. If a record sounds shitty, that's just the sound it has. I just take it as part of the music. Some of my favorite bands - their old records sound terrible. But that's just part of the sound. If they were perfect, I'd probably hate them. Same thing with movies.
-
Music means a great deal to me.
