C. Z. Guest Quotes

The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

Don't give up, what've you do; eyes front, head high to the finish. See it through!

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

Style is about surviving, about having been through a lot and making it look easy.

One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.

Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.

I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

I'm married to the person I fell in love with.

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.

I painted sets before I ever performed.

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.

Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.

Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of words I want to be one with the blossoms and birds.

The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.

Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that - At least no one ever has done it; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew, he'd begun it.

All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.

Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.

I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.

Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

... the monotonous beauty of wealth.

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

My success is not who I am.

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

Don't put anyone out of your heart, there's room for all.