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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
-
I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
-
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?
-
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.
-
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.
-
We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
-
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
-
I don't know if I'm a method actor.
-
What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
-
It's very hard to fake. When you see Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig in 'Bridesmaids,' you can tell they really love each other.
-
You don't know this when you're young, but over time, you see that great companies are usually built at a special point in time.
-
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
-
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.
-
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.
