"Whenever a single bump or a ruffle comes into this little fantasy, adolescent fantasy world that you guys, you guys have built around yourselves, you start screaming like a bunch of pansy hairdressers."

"We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel, they're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries, it's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water."

"You can't really dust for vomit."

"There's something about this that's so black, it's like how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."

"[Asked by a reporter if this is the end of Spinal Tap] Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you."

"Well, I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation."

"I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything."

"[introducing the film] I wanted to capture the... the sights, the sounds... the smells of a hard-working rock band, on the road. And I got that; I got more... a lot more. But hey, enough of my yakkin'; whaddaya say? Let's boogie!"

"Lance Davis - Richard St. Claire"

"Megan Fay - Poppy Carnahan"

"Christopher Murney - Det. Deutsch"

"Richard Portnow - Det. Mastrionotti"

"David Warrilow - Garland Stanford"

"Steve Buscemi - Chet"

"Jon Polito - Lou Breeze"

"Fred Willard - Lieutenant Hookstratten"

"Anjelica Huston - Polly Deutsch"

"Paul Shaffer - Artie Fufkin"

"Howard Hesseman - Terry Ladd"

"Dana Carvey - Mime Waiter"

"Billy Crystal - Morty the Mime"

"Patrick Macnee - Sir Denis Eton-Hogg"

"Fran Drescher - Bobbi Flekman"

"Bruno Kirby - Tommy Pischedda"

"June Chadwick - Jeanine Pettibone"

"Tony Hendra - Ian Faith"

"Danny Kortchmar - Ronnie Pudding"

"Ed Begley Jr. - John "Stumpy" Pepys"

"David Kaff - Viv Savage"

"R.J. Parnell - Mick Shrimpton"

"Harry Shearer - Derek Smalls"

"Michael McKean - David St. Hubbins"

"Christopher Guest - Nigel Tufnel"

"Tony Shalhoub - Ben Geisler"

"Judy Davis - Audrey Taylor"

"Michael Lerner - Jack Lipnick"

"John Goodman - Charlie Meadows"

"John Turturro - Barton Fink"

"There's only one thing stranger than what's going on inside his head. What's going on outside."

"Between Heaven and Hell There's Always Hollywood!"

"C'mon, Barton, you think you know about pain? You think I made your life hell? Take a look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter, Barton, I live here, don't you understand that? And you come into MY home... and you complain that I'M making too... much... noise."

"Look upon me! I'll show you the life of the mind! I'll show you the life of the mind!"

"Look, Bart, barring a preference we're going to put you to work on a wrestling picture, Wallace Beery. I say this because they tell me you know the poetry of the streets, so that would rule out westerns, pirate pictures, screwball, Bible, Roman... look, I'm not one of those guys who thinks poetic has got to be fruity. We're together on that, aren't we? I mean I'm from New York myself, well, Minsk if you want to go all the way back. Which we won't, if you don't mind and I ain't asking. Now people are going to say to you, Wallace Beery, wrestling, it's a B picture. You tell them: BULLSHIT! We do NOT make B pictures here at Capitol. Let's put a stop to that rumor RIGHT now!"

"We're only interested in one thing, Bart. Can you tell a story? Can you make us laugh? Can you make us cry? Can you make us want to break out in joyous song? Is that more than one thing? Okay!"

"I run this dump, and I don't know the technical mumbo-jumbo. Why do I run it? Cause I got horse sense, goddamit. SHOWMANSHIP! And also, and I hope Lou told you this, I am bigger and meaner and louder than any other kike in this town. Did you tell him that, Lou? And I don't mean my dick is bigger than yours, it's not a sexual thing, although you're the writer, you'd know more about that. Coffee?"

"John Mahoney - W.P. Mayhew"

"Bruce McGill - Sheriff Farley"

"Lane Smith - D.A. Jim Trotter"

"Fred Gwynne - Judge Chamberlain Haller"

"Mitchell Whitfield - Stan Rothenstein"