Christopher Lambert Quotes
It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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Cuando todo está hecho, las mañanas son tristes.
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Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
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God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.
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If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.
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There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
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It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.
