Actor Christopher Walken often pretends it's his birthday on film sets to dupe the cast and crew into giving him cake.
He explains, "I sit in the make-up trailer very early in the morning and while the lady is patting my face with the brush. I look very sad.
"Sooner or later she'll ask, 'What's the matter? You look a little down today.'
"So, I'll say, 'I'm alright.' Then she'll finally ask again: 'Come on, what is it?'
"Then I reply. 'It's my birthday, and I'm sad, because I'm alone...and I don't have a cake. But don't tell anybody.'
"By lunchtime a cake is wheeled out with bottles of champagne, and we all have a lot of fun."
Walken Proud of Dastardly Cake Ploy
