Christopher Walken Quotes
I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.
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Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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I just love kids. I always have.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don't believe in the term 'next superstar.'
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
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The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.
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And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.
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I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.
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Because when I go places and I talk to kids and I talk to parents and I talk to athletes all over, and they look at my story and they see a person, African-American or not, they see something that they can relate to.
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I get his fan mail, and take it to work. I've gotten boxes of persimmons, all kinds of stuff, ... One day a woman showed up from New Jersey, asking me for the donation I promised. I told her that she's probably looking for the Wayne Newton who lives in Las Vegas.
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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
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I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.
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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
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I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.
