Christopher Guest Quotes

I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.

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• An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • High
  • Successful
  • Facts

• The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Live
  • Standards

• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • Work
  • Want
  • Motivational

• One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • You
  • Film
  • Audience

• I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Right
  • Now
  • Exist

• I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Actor
  • Break
  • Away

• We need to build opt-in society, outside the U.S., run by technology.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Society
  • Technology
  • Run

• Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Art
  • Romantic

• Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Run

• Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Mother

• We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Life
  • Country
  • Today

• I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Crazy
  • Got
  • Belt

• How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Amazing
  • Grace

• I have to stand up for myself... I learned something that I could and should stand up for myself, and he learned something, which was she will stand up for herself.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • She

• The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart. Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sea

• Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking;Dream of battled fields no more,Days of danger, nights of waking.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Dream
  • Rest
  • Sleep

• I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.

  

  Larry Wall
  • World
  • Long

• But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western arisal might have pleased it, so he knew that Buttercup was obliged to spend her love on him. Gold was inviting, and so was royalty, but they could not match the fever in his heart, and sooner or later she would have to catch it. She had less choice than the sun.

  

  William Goldman
  • Heart
  • Morning
  • Choices

• I believe each actor is versatile and different, so you can't compare them.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Believe
  • Different

• I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Society
  • Vision

• It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

  

  Tony Snow
  • Auditorium
  • Quiet
  • No Sense

• I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.

  

  Christopher Guest