Christopher Guest Quotes
In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.Christopher Guest
Quotes to Explore
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
Felicity Jones -
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig -
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
C. L. R. James -
A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
Rafael dos Anjos -
America is not the center of the universe.
Felix Dennis
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar -
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
Jack Dee -
There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
Imogen Poots -
Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
Yoko Ono -
There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
Gary Busey -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
Nargis Fakhri -
There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
Tabatha Coffey -
Let's create a legal system that can work.
Sam Brownback -
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
Dan Aykroyd -
I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
Rae Carson
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I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything. It was for 'Chicago.' There were probably three hundred people there.
Kate Levering -
I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.
Malcolm Wilson -
You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
Vince Staples -
The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?'
Bruno Heller -
In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page.
Christopher Guest