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


Nina Blackwood

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I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.
NINA BLACKWOOD We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.
ROGER DALTREY 'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't hav...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.
ALISON MOYET I did a little film called 'Nina,' a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to N...
ALAINA HUFFMAN I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.
MATTHEW MCGRORY My headmistress was very good about it. She used to say that I could do my homework in the PE lesson...
CATHY PETERS My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was bas...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I'm really fond of 'Real Life' because I think it anticipated a whole movement. And peop...
ALBERT BROOKS As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Fami...
ROB REINER At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.
PRINCE I knew I could do it all this time,” said Harry, “Because I'd already done it... does that make ...
J.K. ROWLING That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.
HARRY SHEARER This Is Spinal Tap.
FRED WILLARD [Spinal Tap] is going to do a Where Are They Now? ...
HARRY SHEARER I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
NAFISA JOSEPH When I finally saw the film, I was floored because it was more than I even expected it would be, and...
LIV TYLER 'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the...
CARL LEWIS All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the fi...
BARBARA COOK The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They ...
JACK BLACK I was so sure I could do it that I had already ordered the champagne yesterday. I was really convinc...
ANTOINE DENERIAZ I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the fi...
DARREN STAR I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college...
LES BAXTER The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They real...
JACK BLACK Being pregnant was the best time of my life because nothing could affect me. It was like a detox - I...
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I ...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because o...
BAHMAN GHOBADI All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to...
PAUL AUSTER I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perfor...
BILL HADER I'm a theater guy and a filmmaker. So when my community was thrown up in the air by the gas indu...
JOSH FOX I was never really concerned about playing time this season, it was whatever I could do for my time,...
FRANK RUSSELL The top girl was at 370, and my best was a 375. I knew I could do it.
KATIE RYCK All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to...
PAUL AUSTER I didn't plant Gewurztraminer because I already had Riesling and felt that it was my niche wine. And...
ALLEN GREEN By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to ...
DAVID MORSE Film-making was not at all what I had expected.
BRIGITTE BARDOT I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON MTV won't do anything unless they own it 100% so that didn't tempt me at all because I would never g...
BILL GRIFFITH But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It ...
BARBARA BROCCOLI I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised ...
DANNY ELFMAN Um, 'Soul Food'... Another wonderful little movie that could. Here's a film that, I thin...
VIVICA A. FOX It was frustrating because I didn't do anything, ... I was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and...
EDDIE GRIFFIN I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, b...
DELTA GOODREM I wouldn't say that I was ever a fan of MTV. I was a guy on MTV. I don't think I was ever in...
DAVID GIUNTOLI I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Divisi...
DOUG FLUTIE I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around...
ROSA PARKS I was lucky I went to school in London because the tutors could see what to do. I knew I wanted to d...
HUSSEIN CHALAYAN And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actuall...
GINNI ROMETTY 'Waiting For Guffman' was different right away from 'Spinal Tap,' because we didn...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick...
ROB REINER I was not a big Allman Brothers fan but I could relate to that because that is what the flavor of th...
GEORGE THOROGOOD If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother in...
DONNA BRAZILE I grew up watching Gregory Hines banging out rhythms like drum beats, and Jimmy Slyde dancing these ...
SAVION GLOVER I was amazed at how good his hips were, and he already knew how to do all the throws. I was excited.
JAKE SHULAW I had good stuff, ... I was staying on top of the ball because I could not bend down. It was a bless...
BARTOLO COLON I looked at it on film and it could have gone both ways. I was going for the ball and the receiver w...
CURTIS DELOATCH I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
TONY CURTIS My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watc...
CAMERON RUSSELL I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew n...
STEPHANIE SIGMAN When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I c...
GRIMES I could not listen to my cell phone because it was too scary. My heart was pounding.
AE JA KIM I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse th...
MATTHEW HENRY Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all...
SARAH DESSEN I did everything I could, gave it my all, but I wasn't able to 'do the doors' this time like I did t...
DAVID BLASKA When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.
HERBIE HANCOCK I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, ...
UDAY KIRAN I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a wa...
HENRY ROLLINS Film school was a privilege I could not afford.
AVA DUVERNAY Suddenly I realized that the critic I was most afraid of wasn't Nina Katz, it was me.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER Nina could scarcely believe a house could be as quiet as the one on Washington Street. Although ther...
JEAN ELSON Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my ...
ROBERT ANTHONY It was just awful. It was the bottom of my life. Thank God I didn't do any drugs or drink at the tim...
ALEX SAAVEDRA Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I remember once, years ago, I met Sting, and he told me that he had seen 'Spinal Tap' 50 tim...
ROB REINER I never do things fearing I could do right or wrong. I just do it because I just follow my guts. Thi...
ELODIE YUNG I compressed my spinal cord at T-11 and T-12.
ANDREW WESSELMAN I knew I could have won that race, I guess it was just not my time.
SANYA RICHARDS The greatest thing that happens to me when I'm skiing is the harmony. The only time I was ever prese...
SPALDING GRAY I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful p...
JACKIE DESHANNON It was so frustrating not being out there. I wanted to take the last shot, and all I could do was ye...
NATALIE THOMAS I just wanted the ball in my hands so I could score and do something positive because in the first h...
CEDRIC REDMOND I had a spinal tap, which didn't hurt. I had an MRI, where they put you in tube [for] 45 minutes, an...
JONATHAN KATZ At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific ...
TABITHA SOREN 'The Custodian' was my first film, and there were so many lessons to learn in that week. It ...
ESSIE DAVIS I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visual...
JACK NANCE At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and soli...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose...
MARK A. ROEDER I reached back and felt something tap my elbow. I looked and this was what was behind me.
TOM JONES I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-r...
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NINA DOBREV Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.
NINA GARCIA I like my squishy, red, high-heeled Vivienne Westwood jelly shoes. They make you seem like you'r...
NINA CONTI I went on a date once with a police officer, unbeknownst to me. I thought he was a regular guy. And ...
NINA DOBREV The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in ...
NINA SIMONE Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious.
NINA EASTON Acting is seductive. It looks so much fun. I did dally with other things. I did pupillage in a law f...
NINA CONTI I have one mascara that I use religiously, and I refuse to try anything else, and if they discontinu...
NINA DOBREV I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I...
NINA BAWDEN Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a w...
NINA GUILBEAU Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while...
NINA EASTON I'm a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONE Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new in...
NINA SIMONE I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
NINA SIMONE I am particular about the seating of the audience-also about how much money they pay-but most of all...
NINA SIMONE There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
NINA SIMONE I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at th...
NINA SIMONE The bosoms may not heave as much. There's a lot of hyperbole and there's a lot of melodrama. I think...
NINA TASSLER The bosoms may not heave as much.
NINA TASSLER I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm...
NINA GARCIA I'm kind of a globetrotter. I've been traveling since I was born and living in different loc...
NINA DOBREV The fierce battles between New Democrat centrists and old-style liberals that defined the Democratic...
NINA EASTON ...I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and ...
NINA LACOUR Events like Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse suggest a national infrastructure th...
NINA EASTON Main Street versus Wall Street was the 2008 economic mantra of Democrat Barack Obama.
NINA EASTON I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness...
NINA HAGEN When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories thr...
NINA ARIANDA What was it Isak Dinesen had said about salt as a cure? Tears, sweat, or the sea. She could use a cu...
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