Christopher Guest Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Christopher Guest:

I painted sets before I ever performed.
~Christopher Guest


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/christopher-guest-quotes/#05e2e950

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/christopher-guest-quotes/#0ec98d6c

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/christopher-guest-quotes/#6627d2a3

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/christopher-guest-quotes/#a01cd574

I'm married to the person I fell in love with.
~Christopher Guest


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/christopher-guest-quotes/#9b0f62f3

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/christopher-guest-quotes/#e5fd1a08

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/christopher-guest-quotes/#67bdf502

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.
~Christopher Guest


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/christopher-guest-quotes/#fd181330

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/christopher-guest-quotes/#0b2b9ebd

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/christopher-guest-quotes/#9c969c2a

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/christopher-guest-quotes/#6b542c04

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/christopher-guest-quotes/#0c551679

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