Christopher Walken Quotes
I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
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The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.
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Responsibility educates.
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There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
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I'm an entrepreneur and a businesswoman and I do a lot of different things besides my work on television and people probably don't know that about me.
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There are so many traps, so many ways of getting screwed in this business.
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As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.
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If I have to run to put myself in the hospital, if I have to run that hard, that's how hard I'll have to run.
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HMS Surprise (1973)
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I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.
