Christopher Guest famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Dust
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

#Children #Growing Up #London
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

#Way #Theater
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

#People #World #Obsession
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

#America #Comedian #Favourite
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 #Rocks #Self
I painted sets before I ever performed.
-- Christopher Guest
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 #Important #Jeeps
I'm married to the person I fell in love with.
-- Christopher Guest

#Married #Persons
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

#Reality #People #Viruses
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

#Real #Thinking #People
Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
-- Christopher Guest

#Player #Keys #Comedy
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 #Writing #Space

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