Christopher Guest Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“You can't really dust for vomit.”
-- Christopher Guest

Source : "This Is Spinal Tap". www.imdb.com. 1984.

#Dust Quotes

“I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.”
-- Christopher Guest

Source : "Nowt so queer as folk" by Richard Grant, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2004.

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #London Quotes

“The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.”
-- Christopher Guest

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Way Quotes #Theater Quotes

“I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.”
-- Christopher Guest

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Obsession Quotes

“I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.”
-- Christopher Guest

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

#America Quotes #Comedian Quotes #Favourite Quotes

“Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.”
-- Christopher Guest

#Jealous Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Self Quotes

“I painted sets before I ever performed.”
-- Christopher Guest

Source : Interview with Scott Dikkers, www.avclub.com. February 26, 1997.

“You know it's important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it starts to snow on Rodeo Drive.”
-- Christopher Guest

#Snow Quotes #Important Quotes #Jeeps Quotes

“I'm married to the person I fell in love with.”
-- Christopher Guest

#Married Quotes #Persons Quotes

“We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.”
-- Christopher Guest

Source : "Gervais to star in 'exquisitely bad movie'" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2005.

#Reality Quotes #People Quotes #Viruses Quotes

“People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.”
-- Christopher Guest

Source : "Featured Filmmaker: Christopher Guest" by Ken P., www.ign.com. May 12, 2003.

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.”
-- Christopher Guest

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Player Quotes #Keys Quotes #Comedy 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

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Space Quotes