Christopher Walken Quotes

I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.

Christopher Walken

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• You can get all A's and still flunk life.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • You
  • Still

• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Greed
  • Generosity
  • Goodness

• 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.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Up
  • Control
  • Audience

• Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Everest
  • Forecast

• 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.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Future
  • Way

• 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.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Men
  • Single
  • Same

• I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Support

• Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

  

  Ram Dass
  • God
  • Inspiration
  • Contact

• '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?'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Laugh

• 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.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Live
  • Action

• 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.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Man
  • Know
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Time
  • She
  • Movie

• A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Like
  • Audience
  • Big

• 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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Day
  • Week
  • Three

• Responsibility educates.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Education
  • Responsibility

• There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Words
  • Deep
  • Reach

• 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.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Ego
  • Check
  • Prideful

• This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • Food

• Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • People
  • Book
  • Guy

• Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Song
  • Party

• Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Death
  • Good Time
  • Fisherman

• I loved Martin Offiah, Andy Farrell and Shaun Edwards in that Wigan team, and they are still heroes today. They were outstanding players and great to watch.

  

  Kevin Whately
  • Great
  • Today
  • Team

• I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Up
  • Music
  • Long

• I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.

  

  Christopher Walken