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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• People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.

  

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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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  • 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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  • True
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• 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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  • Goal
  • Enough
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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.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
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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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  • Language
  • Colleagues
  • Racial

• Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Vision

• 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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  • Want
  • Play
  • End

• There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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  • World
  • English

• Everything speeds up and it's blurry for a minute. But you've got to have a little patience sometimes to just find a soft spot. There's always a soft spot in the defense, and it's your job to find it.

  

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• Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Important
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• Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

  

  Pete Best
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• My parents are kind of young, and my dad always listened to rock music and stuff like that, so I sort of grew up around that. As far as acting goes, I didn't really have any major influences because it wasn't really something that I focused on.

  

  Meghann Fahy
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  • Music
  • Parents

• The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.

  

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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.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Friends
  • America
  • Parents