Quotes About Celebration

When we finished 'Stop Making Sense,' we went right to the San Francisco Film Festival for the world premiere, and people swarmed the stage and started dancing before the first song was even finished.

You can go at the premiere it's at Disneyland.

It's always great to be able to go to a premiere with the actors there.

Before 'Y Tu Mama,' I did 16 movies that only my family got to see because I invited them to the premiere.

You avoid the hype while you're working, you have to, but the premiere is the one night of the year where you can enjoy it.

The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.

NYAK is premium cognac, and I'm so happy to be a part of the family.

You don't need preparations for a family gathering. We have one almost every night where we meet, laugh, get drunk and come back home. We're one family that's happy among ourselves.

During Holi, my mom prepares lovely puran polis, and everyone in my family makes an exception in their diet plan to include this delicious food item!

I like to party at Christmas. We always have a duck, which my brother prepares.

Whenever we go to different places fans in each country prepare something before we go on stage for our encore.

My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.

After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another.

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.

I used to go to musicals every birthday - that was my birthday present. We'd go to London, me and my two brothers and mum and dad. I think I saw 'Mamma Mia' about five times.

This is my present, you know. My present from Mother.

When the opportunity presented itself, I had never been bar mitzvahed. I wasn't going to pass it up.

I'm extremely grateful that a lot of my films are presented at festivals.

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.

I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.

Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.

At our house, we'd always open presents with our Christmas records playing. 'Little Drummer Boy' was one of my favorites when I was a kid because it was about a kid.