Corky St. Clair Quotes in Waiting for Guffman (1996)

Corky St. Clair: ...'cause you people are BASTARD PEOPLE!

Corky St. Clair: Well, then, I just HATE you... and I hate your... ass... FACE!

Corky St. Clair: It's like in a Hitchcock movie, you know, where they tie you up in a rubber bag and throw you in the trunk of a car. You find people.

Corky St. Clair: So what I'm understanding here - correct me, if I'm wrong - is that you're not givin' me... any money... so now I'm left basically with nothin', I'm... left with ZERO, in which, in which, what can I do with zero, you know? What can I... I can't do ANYTHIN' with it! I need to, this is my LIFE here we're talking about! We're not just talkin' about, you know, somethin' else, were talking about MY life, you know? And it's forcing me to do somethin' I don't wanna do. To leave. To, to go out and just leave and go home and say, make a clean cut here and say "no way, Corky, you're not puttin' up with these people!" And I'll tell you why I can't put up with you people: because you're BASTARD people! That's what you are! You're just bastard people! And I'm goin' home and I'm gonna... I'm gonna BITE MY PILLOW, is what I'm gonna do!

Corky St. Clair: What the city council did was really... give me a challenge, and it's a challenge that I am going to... accept. It's like in the olden days, in the... days of France, when men would slap each other with their gloves... say, y'know... "D'Artagnan!"... y'know, "how dare you talk to me like that, you!," and... smack 'em!

Corky St. Clair: It's a Zen thing, like how many babies fit in a tire.

Corky St. Clair: Here's the Remains of the Day lunchbox. Kids don't like eating at school, but if they have a Remains of the Day lunchbox they're a lot happier.

Corky St. Clair: 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.

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?

Corky St. Clair: Everybody dance!

[Corky and Libby are playing a World War II era couple in "Red, White and Blaine"]

Libby Mae Brown: [as "Ima"] I hear that French girls... are very pretty... that they wear the finest of clothes. I also hear that they are experts... in the ways of love.

Corky St. Clair: [as "Monty"] Ima... I'm going to fight for my country! To fight... and yes, perhaps die... so that young men from here to Timbuktu can feel the wind of freedom blowin' through their hairrrrr!

Corky St. Clair: How tall are you?

Johnny: 6'2.

Corky St. Clair: Really... Wow!

Corky St. Clair: I got off that boat with nothing but my dancers belt and a tube of CHAPSTICK!

Corky St. Clair: [attempting to say "Hello, how are you" in a Cockney accent] Ello, ow are ooo?

Corky St. Clair: I was shopping for my wife Bonnie. I buy most of her clothes and Mrs Pearl was in the same shop! And it just was an accident you know, we started talking... about panty hose, she was saying... whatever that's not the point of the story but what the point is is that through this accidental meeting... it's like a Hitchcock movie you know where you're thrown into a rubber bag and put in the trunk of a car, you find people. You find them. Something, is is it karma? Maybe. But we found him, that's the important thing. And I got Bonnie a wonderful pantsuit.

Corky St. Clair: You're squeezing your boobies out!

[the cast of "Red, White And Blaine" is in its first rehearsal]

Corky St. Clair: I'd like you to close your eyes now, and I'd like you to try something, all right? Now what are you thinkin', what are you feeling right now, with your eyes closed?

[Blows in Dr. Pearl's ear]

Dr. Allan Pearl: I feel a bree... a... you're blowing in my ear.

Corky St. Clair: Okay, all right, but you see you jumped... to a conclusion!

Dr. Pearl: Oh!

Corky St. Clair: See, what I'm asking for is... your first feeling... was not that I was blowing on you. It was more like... Virgin Isles, or... Bahamanian...

Dr. Pearl: Oh...

Corky St. Clair: Or... Arubian...

Corky St. Clair: Boy, I didn't know deers could... could do that, you know?

Corky St. Clair: [during "Red, White, and Blaine production, 'Bulging River' Scene] I love you too pa. You taught me how to be a man. How to wrastle a steer to the ground and apply a fiery brand to his hind-quarters. And yes, how to love a woman. How the smell of her hair can drive a man wild!

Corky St. Clair: Well, it's like, how many babies fit the tire? You know, that old joke.