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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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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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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We're all hoping to drop at least a few seconds in the finals. There's a lot of girls that didn't even swim this morning that will be racing us tonight, so we are going to be in the mindset that we are still just as fresh.
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I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.
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There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.
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And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.
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It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in Lindbergh's lifetime. Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui.
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I'm fascinated by real-time behavior.
