Christopher Walken Quotes

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

Christopher Walken

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 31, 1943

Topics

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At any time, somebody can blow themselves up and take Americans with them. They can blow up an airplane; they can crash an airplane. That's something we have to worry about every day - we spend 40 billion dollars yearly on homeland security. That has nothing to do with Crusades or any of that other nonsense.

John Fleming

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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

John le Carre

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Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

Robert Smithson

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I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers.

Steve Kanaly

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A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.

Stephen R. George

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I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

Stone Gossard

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Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.

Mila Kunis

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Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Michael Lee-Chin

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The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.

Dick Dale

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Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.

Cheech Marin

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I was failed in all other aspects of filmmaking and was completely bankrupt because my dreams were higher than realities. So I started my acting school in a small room with 12 students to prepare future actors and actresses.

Anupam Kher

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On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.

Philippe Petit

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