Christopher Walken Quotes
My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
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My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.
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Usually pilot season is very busy, and there are lots of auditions and lots of near misses and rejections. This year, I had two auditions, landed this role and it felt like being home again.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
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My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.
