Christopher Guest Quotes

I've got to be honest, with every job I do there's a part of me, that child in me, that goes, 'This is the one.' And it rarely actually is.

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.

I've always been a dreamer.

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.