Waiting for Guffman Quotes
Corky St. Clair: How tall are you?
Johnny: 6'2.
Corky St. Clair: Really... Wow!
He's teaching me to change my instincts... or at least ignore them.
Sheila
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
Lloyd Miller: [whispering] I don't want to interfere, but I think it would be... I think we have to work on...
Corky St. Clair: I can't hear you!
Lloyd Miller: [normal voice] I think we have to work on the music a little bit more. But I don't want to make trouble. So,
[whispering again]
Lloyd Miller: and I don't really want to do this in front of them...
Corky St. Clair: Well, where do you want to do it?
Lloyd Miller: [whispering] Well, I think we have to sit down and make a schedule that includes some music time, because I think Jane and I have to work...
Corky St. Clair: Why are you whispering? I'm right here, you know?
Lloyd Miller: [raising voice considerably] Oh I'm sorry, do you want me to talk louder? Because I think that that it would be...
Corky St. Clair: Well now it's too loud! You know, just talk like a normal person, OK?
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
People don't like to have fire poked, poked in their noses.
Corky St. Clair
Well, then, I just HATE you... and I hate your... ass... FACE!
Corky St. Clair
We don't associate with the creative types. We have a Scrabble club. We associate with people with babies.
Mrs. Pearl
Some people find it ironical that although we run a travel agency, we've never been outside of Blaine.
Ron Albertson
Blaine is the stool capital of the world.
Glenn Welsch
We consider ourselves bi-costal if you consider the Mississippi River one of the coasts.
Ron Albertson
It's a Zen thing, like how many babies fit in a tire.
Corky St. Clair
