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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#failures #front #man #nothing #page

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

— Christopher Walken

#between #connection #dangerous #disconcerting #funny

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#again #asked #chances #comic #effectively

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

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

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've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#actor #although #always #any #anything

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#business #gets #good #i #i wish

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#going #i #know #made #movies