Christopher Guest Quotes

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

Christopher Guest

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FunnyPeopleSeriouslySeeAnything

Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has helped make actors raise their game. They have to.

Joe Dempsie

PeopleGameFishRailwayHerRaise

I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.

John Eldredge

FamilyFocusDoingMediaStarted

The approach to 'Star Wars' was more complicated than usual merely by the nature of its expansiveness.

John Cassaday

NatureComplicatedMoreStarThan

I think the Invictus Games is something the world needs to know more about. What it does for the competitors and what it does for the families and what it does for the wounded warriors and their support system is nothing short of phenomenal. More people need to know about it.

John Cena

SupportPeopleWorldThinkShort

And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security.

Michael Chertoff

New YorkYouSecurityNewOverRole

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

John Searles

FamilyCollegeGoneEvenEverHad

I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine.

Tracey Ullman

PeopleDrivingComfortableHeroesUp

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

Robin S. Sharma

LawyerPauseCliffCrowdOffButton

I don't live under the illusion we don't need a military to protect this country.

Ron White

LiveIllusionCountryProtectNeed

My job as attorney general has been, in regard to guns, to have oversight in regard to concealed-carry licenses.

Mike DeWine

JobGunsBeenGeneralAttorney

Certain media-related developments in the country are raising questions regarding its objectivity and credibility. Paid news and the declining roles of the editors and their editorial freedom is posing a major threat to the Indian media.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

FreedomQuestionsMediaPosingNews

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.

Jason Alexander

TimeBetterBudgetYouFindPlace

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