"My background is in musical comedy."

-- Christopher Walken

#Musical Quotes #Comedy Quotes #Backgrounds Quotes

“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I”

Source : "Falstaff for our times". www.theguardian.com. March 5, 1999.
“I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.”
“If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.”
“Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.”

Source : 'Like sleeping with an insomniac elephant'" by Anne McIlroy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2004.
“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”
“At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal.”
“The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter, and apprehend such as they might deem obnoxious persons.”

Source : John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (2004). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, p.128, Hendrickson Publishers
“My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.”

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