Spinal Tap Quotes

#1. The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.

Bob Hope

#2. There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us.

Alice Cooper

#3. That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.

Harry Shearer

#4. It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

Michael McKean

#5. As the leadership team, we're taking bold and decisive action to evolve our organization and culture. This includes difficult steps, but they are necessary to position Microsoft for future growth and industry leadership.

Amy Hood

#6. We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

Roger Daltrey

#7. As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Family.' He helped me get my start as a director. He was the one who said, 'Let him do 'Spinal Tap.' Let him give it a try,' because I had been trying for years to get that thing off the ground.

Rob Reiner

#8. I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'

Bill Hader

#9. I have a needle being stuck into my spine, can anyone please define "a little pain"?

Pandora Poikilos

#10. Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-'70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap.

Adam Schlesinger

#11. Dwarves are very much of the earth and feel connected to the earth; considering gravity, their weight is low, but they're not small.

Peter Hambleton

#12. If you've ever seen the movie Spinal Tap, I think you know where we should try and reach by the end of our crime Story.

Shawn Coyne

#13. When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.

Ben Stiller

#14. Love she'd had for her grandmother had died sixteen years ago on May 25th at exactly 3:32 p.m. I figure it'll take the Peaceful Rest and Slumber folks

Katie Graykowski

#15. It's not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym.

Kiana Tom

#16. ... to a Prince who wants to do great things, it is necessary to learn to deceive.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#17. I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

Robert Wyatt

#18. That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series.

Deyth Banger

#19. The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.

Jack Black

#20. The lack of attention to the smallest details can completely destroy a man's life

Paulo Coelho

#21. Music has always been the greatest expression of mortal philosophy," continued Lucky. "The path to enlightenment is found in the lyrics of Spinal Tap.

A. Lee Martinez

#22. I remember once, years ago, I met Sting, and he told me that he had seen 'Spinal Tap' 50 times. He said: 'Every time I watch it, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.'

Rob Reiner

#23. I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#24. I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick up on it. Like 'Spinal Tap' and 'Princess Bride.'

Rob Reiner

#25. You can't really dust for vomit.

Christopher Guest

#26. Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.

Cassandra Clare

#27. I've met architects before, and they're not living the life we see on TV.

Casey Wilson

#28. It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.

Tim O'Brien

#29. And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.

Dave Barry

#30. There are people who think the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' is simply a very funny 'mockumentary.' Well, with Yes, we lived it. Take the hilarious scene in the film in which the bass player is trapped in a giant pod - that actually happened to Alan one night.

Rick Wakeman

#31. I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.

Nina Blackwood

#32. I like working consistently. I like working for four months at a time, which is why cable was so attractive. You work for four months, and then you get to do something else, whether it's doing a movie or just being at home with your husband and eventually having a family.

Jordana Brewster

#33. People who were really good at playing or singing seemed boring to me.

Doug Martsch

#34. I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

Nina Blackwood

#35. I say I write to you, but, truth be told, I prefer the American idiom: I write you. I'll write you friends say, as if, in writing, someone could be caused to appear, as if writing were a spell, some form of conjuration. So, I write you to bring you here, bring you back.

Julian Wolfreys

#36. I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

Matthew McGrory

#37. I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.

Winston Churchill

#38. I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

Henry Rollins