Favorite Waiting for Guffman Quotes
People don't like to have fire poked, poked in their noses.
Corky St. Clair
My first show was Barefoot in the Park, which was an absolute smash, but my production on the stage of Backdraft was what really got them excited. This whole idea of 'In Your Face' theatre really affected them. The conceptualization, the whole abstraction, the obtuseness of this production to me was what was interesting. I wanted the audience to feel the heat from the fire, the fear, because people don't like fire, poked, poked in their noses, you know when you get a cinder from a barbeque right on the end of your nose and you kind of make that face, you know, that's not a good thing, and I wanted them to have the sense memory of that. So during the show I had someone burn newspapers and send it through the vents in the theatre. And well, they freaked out, and 'course the fire Marshall came over and they shut us down for a couple of days.
Corky St. Clair
I'm walking on air... you know... this is a sensation which is... forget it. When I became a dentist, I thought I was happy, but this...
Dr. Pearl
He's teaching me to change my instincts... or at least ignore them.
Sheila
Corky St. Clair: How tall are you?
Johnny: 6'2.
Corky St. Clair: Really... Wow!
You're squeezing your boobies out!
Corky St. Clair
You have to go where the love is. And the love for me, right now, is in Miami, not Blaine.
Dr. Pearl
I been workin' here at the D.Q. for about, um... eight months? Seven? I don't know, somethin' like that, it's fun. Just do the cones... make sundaes, make Blizzards, 'n... put stuff on 'em, 'n... see a lot of people come in, a lot of people come to the D.Q... burgers... ice cream... anything, you know? Cokes... just drive in and get a Coke, if you're thirsty.
Libby Mae Brown
Everybody dance!
Corky St. Clair
I'll always have a place at the Dairy Queen.
Libby Mae Brown
What New York really is, is it's an island, with lots of people, lots of different people... I hope to maybe meet some guys, some Italian guys, and maybe watch some TV.
Libby Mae Brown
My aunt brought out her atlas that I look at a lot. This big blue book and opened up to New York and it's an island, is really what it is. It's this island full of people of different colors and different ideas and I can't- It sounds like a lot of fun to me. You know, we don't see much of that in Blaine. I'd like to maybe meet some guys, some Italian guys, you know... watch TV and stuff.
Libby Mae Brown
