Christopher Walken Quotes

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I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

Christopher Walken

Fever, Snl, Skit

"Fictional character: Bruce Dickinson". "Saturday Night Live/ Christopher Walken/Christina Aguilera", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

Christopher Walken

Inspirational, Impression, Better Off

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I have this theory about words. There's a thousand ways to say "Pass the salt". It could mean, you know, "Can I have some salt?" or it could mean, "I love you.". It could mean, "I'm very annoyed with you". Really, the list could go on and on. Words are little bombs, and they have a lot of energy inside them.

Christopher Walken

Love You, Mean, Annoyed

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

Christopher Walken

Hands, Knowing, Decision

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At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

Christopher Walken

Inspirational, Life Is, Unpredictable

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I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

Christopher Walken

Country, Cat, Years

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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I like cats a lot. I've always liked cats. They're great company. When they eat, they always leave a little bit at the bottom of the bowl. A dog will polish the bowl, but a cat always leaves a little bit. It's like an offering.

Christopher Walken

Dog, Cat, Offering

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I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why.

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Girl, Rip, Angel

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I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

Christopher Walken

Worry, Trying, I Can

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There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

Christopher Walken

Funny, Scary, Connections

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

Christopher Walken

Careers, People, Able

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In the end, there's still the Word, everywhere... In Heaven and it's Angels, the Earth and Stars, even in the darkest part of the Human Soul It was there where it burned brightest. And for a moment, I was blinded.

Christopher Walken

Stars, Angel, Heaven

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My hair was famous before I was.

Christopher Walken

Hair

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.

Christopher Walken

Honesty, Feel Good, Trying

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

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I make up different names for my cat all the time - Flapjack, Bowtie, Popcorn. But he's really, "Hey you, cat."

Christopher Walken

Cat, Names, Different

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Christopher Walken

Wonderful, Improvising, Knows

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Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

Christopher Walken

Thinking, Important, Acting

Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 6, 2004.

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My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.

Christopher Walken

Children, Home, Years

"Christopher Walken: 'I'm a regular guy" by Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2013.

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I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

Christopher Walken

Zoos, Animal, Law

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I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.

Christopher Walken

Father, Men, Thinking

Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.

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Dog, Couple, Nice

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I've done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I'm proud of... Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them.

Christopher Walken

Watches, Lucky, Done

Source: the-talks.com

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In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind of the same thing. You're figuring it out and hopefully the camera is pointed at you when you're doing it.

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Order, Cameras, Rehearsal

"Seven Psychopaths Q&A: 10 Minutes in Heaven With Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell". Interview with Andy Greenwald, grantland.com. October 11, 2012.

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I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection.

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Perfection, Looks, Possibility

"A Mellow, Reflective Christopher Walken". The Seattle Times, October 18, 2004.

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I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

Christopher Walken

Father, Boston, Pie

"Christopher Walken: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 14, 2009.

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"I get a lot of invitations, and sometimes it's far away, it's in Montana or something. "We'd like you to come to our daughter's wedding." These are people I've never heard of. I get a lot that. "Will you come to my son's graduation?" No...I guess when you're in stuff, it's almost a feeling that they know you."

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Born: March 31, 1943
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