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„Кажется, это научный факт, что вопросительный знак произошёл от египетского иероглифа, символизирующего уходящую кошку. Как хвост, понимаете?“

„Я очень терпеливый. Я люблю смотреть, как сохнет краска.“

„Когда появилось телевидение, мои родители подсели на него. Они купили самый большой телевизор. Ко мне иногда приходят призраки из тех лет: например, обезьянки на мотоциклах.
Была очень знаменитая обезьяна, Джей Фред Магс, у нее был собственный мотоцикл, она был звездой!“

„Я люблю жизнь в глуши — там тихо и прекрасно. Рядом с моим домом живут полчища опоссумов, скунсов и целая армия енотов. Они постоянно пробираются в дом через дверцу для кошки и даже приводят своих детей. Бывает, я прихожу ночью на кухню, а они сидят там кучей и пожирают кошачью еду.“

„Костюм медведя — это очень смешно. Как и сами медведи.“

„Не свети своей рожей слишком часто. Пусть людям будет по-настоящему приятно увидеть её в какой-то из дней.“

„В лучшие свои моменты жизнь бывает особо непредсказуема.“

„Есть две вещи, которые роднят страх со смехом, — встряска и дезориентация.“

„Чем старше я становлюсь, тем больше уверенность, что все в нашей жизни — от удачи. И от пунктуальности. Если приходить вовремя, все идет хорошо.“

„В моём детстве был один человек, который постоянно говорил мне: «А ты дерзкий, парниша». Сколько я себя помню, он вечно посмеивался вначале — типа, ха-ха-ха, — а потом говорил это. И всё своё детство я гадал, что же это значит. А потом я вырос и вдруг осознал, что это просто наставление, инструкция. Скажи что-то ребенку — и он будет помнить это до старости. Так вот, мне кажется, что я дерзкий. А возможно, меня просто в этом убедили.“

„Со мной не нужно ничего делать, чтобы я выглядел жестоким и злым. Да, я был симпатичнее, когда был моложе. Но сейчас я нравлюсь себе больше.“

„Я одет в черное, потому что это практично. Ты выглядишь тоньше, ты выглядишь чистым, даже если это на самом деле не так. Азиаты знали это тысячи лет.“

„Я слишком эгоистичен для того, чтобы иметь детей. К тому же у моей жены хватает забот и со мной.“

“I won't retire. When you're an actor, you're forced to retire every few months. John Gielgud was 96 when he died, and he was working. It's good to work, whatever it is that keeps you interested. I would like to do that, I would like to keep going. I don't have kids, and I don't have hobbies. I don't particularly like to travel. If you're an actor, you have to travel anyway.”

“Everybody always wants to work with Christopher Walken. I think he's the most interesting actor working today. His choices are always dangerous, which makes for interesting work. You can watch him eat a bowl of cereal and you'd be riveted because he's just unpredictable.”

“I'm a better actor now than I ever was, I wish I could have hurried that up, but there's no way. Anyway, I always wanted to be around for a long time. Like a European actor, I hope I live a long time and that I'm acting until I finish.”

“I'm not a big fan of other people's punctuation. When I read a script I've got a sort of automatic eraser. I don't see punctuation or capitals or instructions. I want to decide when the sentence is over. Who's to say when a sentence ends and the other one begins? Sometimes it begins in the middle of the next sentence.”

“I believe in saving money. I believe in having a house. I believe in keeping things clean. I believe in exercising. Slow and steady is a very good thing for me. It works for me.”

“I think that my strength as a villain is that the people watching me know that Chris knows that he's in a movie. He's playing. He's having fun. He's going bang, bang. You know, "What's that?"”

“Walken is fascinating because he has a complex and fearless process -- each take is wildly different and he does that until he finds the one that is true perfection.”

“I play a lot of those parts, and it's a chicken-and-egg thing. I don't know whether you get scary because you play those parts or did you get those parts because you were scary? But I do believe that there's a very close connection to what's scary and what's funny. So I think if you have the ability to do one, you might have the ability to do the other.”

“Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.”

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

“It's a natural aspect of the marketplace. It's always been that way in storytelling. The guy who was good at playing the lover plays the lover, the funny guy gets the comic role. Movies are so expensive, when they put them together they want to have a couple of solid blocks in what they're building. I accept that. In theater, though, I tend to look for other things, I think I tend to be best in comedy.”

“Careers are not often as chosen as people think they are. People talk to me about my choices. I don't make choices, hardly. Things happen, and you say yes or no - usually 'yes', because it's always better to do something. What's the choice? Somebody will say, 'Don't do that part, you don't need to do that part.' And I'll say, 'Why not? What am I going to do? Sit around the house? I'd much rather go to work, and see actors, and have fun.”

“I have a theory, that there is a terrific link between what is funny and what is scary. I think there is a very close connection between what frightens people and what makes them laugh. Laughter is a kind of nervousness. Animals don't laugh. Smiling is, anthropologists agree, directly linked to the baring of the teeth.”

“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.”

“I have the easiest job in Hollywood, because I get paid to be me. What's the role? A milkman? 'Hey, I'm a milkman. Here's your milk.”

“Get these tubes away from me!”

“I’m Christopher Walken, here!”