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I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#expect #expectations #good #i #i think

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#business #city #different #fact #i

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

— Christopher Walken

#boston #cream #danish #father #i

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bent #everything #nature #nothing #perfect

As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#butler #concerned #everyone #far #i

My favorite animal is steak. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#favorite #steak

Polite conversation is rarely either. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#conversation #either #polite #rarely

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression? ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#amendment #companies #constitutionally #days #expression

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#carries #else #end #every #form

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#before #fathers #get #glad #grandfathers