Christopher Quotes

Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.

I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.

I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.

I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.

I don't think a lot of people are able to relate to genuine patriotism, a genuinely good feeling about our country and its meaning to the rest of the world.

I really love advertising art of the '50s and the way mid-century design was often represented in jazzy, fast art.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

I get asked, 'Who would you really like to work with?' I'm already working with them. Smart, talented, funny people, good musicians, an extended family, good friends.

What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight man, and then there's the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they're both the funny guy.

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.

There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you.

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.