Christopher Walken Quotes
I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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We tried two moderate Republican candidates, McCain and Romney, and we lost both times.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.
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The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.
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I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.
