Christopher Guest Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
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I can give anyone a hard time.
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I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern lifestyles use, decide how much energy we would like to use in the future, and choose where we will get that energy from.
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I'm fascinated by real-time behavior.
