Christopher Guest Quotes

I don't do any editing while we're making the movie. I sit down and watch it all with my editor, we make longhand notes on pads, and then we begin our work.

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• Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hate
  • Him
  • Communist

• Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Talent

• When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Good
  • Marriage
  • Study

• Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

  

  Dale Turner
  • People
  • Progress
  • Adventure

• To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• I've had every hair style imaginable.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Style
  • Hair
  • Had

• You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Problem
  • Mum

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Group
  • Illness
  • Improve

• How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?

  

  Halima Aden
  • World
  • Same
  • Everyone

• The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Family

• With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Worry
  • Adapt
  • Global Warming

• I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Country
  • Feeling
  • Living

• Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

  

  E. L. James
  • Time
  • Children
  • Job

• What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?

  

  Charles Studd
  • World

• Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.

  

  Anthony Collins
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Better

• My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be.

  

  Fred Couples
  • People
  • Great
  • She

• Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

  

  Gallagher
  • American
  • City
  • Year

• I don't do any editing while we're making the movie. I sit down and watch it all with my editor, we make longhand notes on pads, and then we begin our work.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Work
  • Movie