Christopher Guest Quotes

Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.

In my eyes, of course, I think I'm the best in the world.

There's not 100 players better than me, so it doesn't matter what people think.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Someone very important once told me, 'You can make almost everything look great.' That's the best compliment I have received till date.

I went into the 'Idol' audition with no expectations; that's just the kind of person I am. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't hurt so badly, you know? But once I made it past the first round, and the second, and third - I started to realize, 'Maybe my goals and dreams really are attainable.'

I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

I admire someone like Beyonce. She has amazing commitment. I needed to accept that I probably did not fit into that forum. Doing that 'The Cherry Thing' record was a big part of finding that place where I belong, where I may shine, but I never doubted it was there.

All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.

I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.

I am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.

Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

Just so we're clear, Mark Watney is who I want to be. He has all the qualities I like about myself magnified without any of the qualities I dislike. Mark Watney isn't afraid to fly.

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

I would try to promote something that I loved, and the entire interview would be about my personal life. I would leave a room feeling defeated, feeling embarrassed, but I would always make sure to put that smile on my face because I wasn't going to let them get to me.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. You don't have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It's that fear of going back down.