Christopher Guest Quotes
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.
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I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
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I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.
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Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.
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I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college.
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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
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You can pick almost any field, and there's going to be weird people.
