Christopher Walken Quotes
Top 87 wise famous quotes and sayings by Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.
I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.
I've been to Chicago a lot - it's one of my favorite places. My wife is from Chicago, and I worked in the theater there a lot.
I don't even like holding them. Whenever I hold a gun, I want to get it out of my hand as quick as possible.
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.
I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.
I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.
People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.
When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.
I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.
I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.
No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.
I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.
I don't play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I'd like to have a crack at one of those guys. A heartbreaker. Some people are born to it. I'm not.
I've done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I'm proud of ... Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them.
As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.
I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.
I don't have kids. Maybe that's kept me young. I have a wife for almost 50 years and she looks after me a little bit like I was seven years-old.
We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.
I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.
In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.
Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.
I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.
I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.
It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!