Christopher Walken Quotes

'Get these tubes away from me!'

Christopher Walken

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• Racism is a physical experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Experience
  • Racism
  • Physical

• People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Think
  • Before

• The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Values

• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • True
  • Feeling

• Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • Live
  • Money

• Israeli governments cling to the two-state notion because it seems to reflect the sentiments of the Jewish Israeli majority, and it shields the country from international opprobrium even as it camouflages relentless efforts to expand Israel's territory into the West Bank.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Country
  • Bank
  • West

• In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Different
  • America
  • Party

• I don't like not having a job. Especially when I started Mixed Martial Arts, this was all I could do.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Job
  • Arts
  • Martial Arts

• Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Today
  • Responsibility

• As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Long
  • Present
  • Doing

• None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Pain
  • Poetry
  • Tragedy

• An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Different
  • Night
  • Day

• I think I'm a story-based artiste. So I would opt for the performance-oriented role. I usually go by intuition while choosing a script. Also, I do not analyse my performance, nor do I bother about how my film has been performing at the box office. I personally love challenges and am game for taking up things which I haven't attempted before.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Game
  • Challenges
  • Role

• The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Future

• Once you have the gallows, you’ll find new reasons to hang people from it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People

• A man shall not be full of laughter and mockery, nor sad and mournful, but joyful. ... His desire shall not be so great that he rushes for wealth, nor shall he be lazy and refrain from working. But he shall live in contentment, have a modest occupation, and be occupied mainly with the Torah.

  

  Maimonides
  • Great
  • Live
  • Desire

• This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause for things that have none, or have no other final cause but their own existence, which depends on the Will of God, or, if you prefer, on the Divine Wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Mind
  • True

• The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Men
  • Fire

• If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Why
  • Character
  • Bad

• Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Lost
  • Suppose
  • Good Advice

• Nature; it always inspires me. Living in New York, it can get quite stressful sometimes, so on the weekends, I like to go hiking.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Nature
  • Hiking

• 'Get these tubes away from me!'

  

  Christopher Walken