Christopher Guest Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
-
I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
-
I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
-
Let's have some new cliches.
-
Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
-
Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
-
The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
-
I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
-
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.
-
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!
-
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
-
People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
-
As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.
-
America's workers deserve a clean vote on a $7.25 increase, with no strings attached. Such an increase helps everyone and hurts no one.
-
You can pick almost any field, and there's going to be weird people.
