You can pick almost any field, and there's going to be weird people. — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny. — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
The reason I work with the same people, it's not just an accident. — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I guess there's something that's appealing to me about people that are aspirational-slash-deluded. — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am,… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
If you don't like the people, you're just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy minus some emotional backbone. — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
The early parodies that talk-show people did of rock n' roll in the '50s were terrible. They didn't know it, they didn't… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
The fun part about doing our movies is that you're creating something using the talents of people rather than finding these pathetic… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I would overhear these conversations of people who show purebred dogs. They spoke about them as if they were their children. — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
There's something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, 'I'm good.' Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective.… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
In 'Waiting for Guffman,' the character I played, the Corky character, he's very serious about what he does, and it's not meant… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I'm drawn as well to the lower echelons of things because it struck me a long time ago that it didn't really… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation. There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none.… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I think fans are so brought up in a culture of rooting for a team since they were kids, ostensibly, and are… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
We heard about people who went backstage at dog shows with scissors and cut parts of a poodle's hair off to sabotage… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
What interests me most are the emotional lives of the people. If I don't have that, it's not worth doing, frankly. — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and… — Christopher Guest Copy Share
My passion is more specific, in the sense that I've always liked doing comedy. I've always liked doing music. I like acting. And apparently,… — Christopher Guest Copy Share
In 'Waiting for Guffman,' the character I played, the Corky character, he's very serious about what he does, and it's not meant to be… — Christopher Guest Copy Share
They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing correct. It's futile beyond… — Christopher Guest Copy Share
It's infrequent that that happens - great performances and magical cinematography and great direction. — Christopher Guest Copy Share
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… — Christopher Guest Copy Share
We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know… — Christopher Guest Copy Share
People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny. — Christopher Guest Copy Share
Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised. — Christopher Guest Copy Share
'Waiting For Guffman' was different right away from 'Spinal Tap,' because we didn't show the interviewer. That person became invisible immediately. That created a… — Christopher Guest Copy Share
If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality. — Christopher Guest Copy Share
