Christopher Guest Quotes

People get really caught up in their own trips.

A zealot is a person who, having forgotten his original purpose, redoubles his efforts.

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

If you obsess about one thing, you're just going to miss the broader picture.

I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head.

I'm sure I was insensitive. I'm probably still a jerk at times. But my priority as a freshman was to be good in basketball and play a lot. Not to be the nicest person in the world. I was one-track-minded. I still am.

I think love is blind. You don't see it, you don't hear what people are saying, or what you're saying. You don't see what you're doing. All you see is the person in front of you. That's it.

You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.

When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it.

One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too.

I tend to be melodramatic and super self-involved.

If the world misunderstands us, then I don't blame others, it's our problem.

More often than we realize, people see in us what we don't see in ourselves.

'Bigg Boss' changed my view of the world. Before I joined the show as its host, I was living in a bubble. I believed the real world is a happy place. 'Bigg Boss' made me realise that the world is made of all kinds of people, including some judgmental ones. It has introduced me to the real world.

I probably don't have any room in my mind for anything but football. My dad tells me I'm a total vegetable outside of just knowing football.

I can't put my mind to anything else. I'm not interested in hanging out or partying. For me, it's all about the pitch: training, playing. But even when I go home, afterwards, it's football the whole time. I think I'm obsessed!

Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice.

You can't get too caught up in yourself.

There is a perspective out there that I'm very much all about myself... I just live with it.

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.