Christopher Walken Quotes
There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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At least I had that, one guy understood me.
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.
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Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.
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Patronage during the Renaissance was considered quite a responsible affair. Philanthropists supported artists, believed in them and never allowed themselves to interfere directly with the creative process of people of art. I myself profess similar principles in the field of cooperation with outstanding cultural figures.
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I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.
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Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons.
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I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retired after working all their lives - that there are options. There are choices. We don't have to just sit around and be invisible.
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There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.
