This Is Spinal Tap Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Harry Shearer

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

Matthew McGrory

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

Nina Blackwood

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

Nina Blackwood

#8. 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

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

Christopher Guest

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Pandora Poikilos

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

Bill Hader

#15. 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

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

Roger Daltrey

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

Alice Cooper