C. Z. Guest Quotes

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.

And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.

...because unlike some, I wasn't in line when they were handling out perfect genes.

Well don't demand the spotlight if you can't handle the attention.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either.

I’m learning geography is about lossand so I keep moving

...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...

There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.

It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposesYou've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

The sky sinks slowly inside the past.

Somewhere I read that human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done and he did it.

To have a reason to get up in the morning it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker if you will.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

I get asked, 'Who would you really like to work with?' I'm already working with them. Smart, talented, funny people, good musicians, an extended family, good friends.

What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight man, and then there's the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they're both the funny guy.