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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.
Christopher Walken
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Christopher Walken
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 31
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I got [Muhammad Ali's boxing shorts] for $40 at an auction. Nobody wanted them. I have them framed in my house.
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I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.
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I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
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Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.
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There are movies that I've made where I thought I was going to be good, but when it was cut it together it wasn't. And there are a lot of movies that, for one reason or another, just don't become popular. So to me it's always been a little bit of a roll of the dice. That's the way it goes.
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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.
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