Christopher Walken Quotes
I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
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I want to play until the end.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.
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President Obama filled in as the coach of his daughter Sasha's basketball team. Sasha evidently listened to her Dad, because all she did was drive straight down the center and piss everyone off.
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I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.
