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If you play a king, it's better if everybody treats you like a king.
— Christopher Walken
I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.
— Christopher Walken
I became an actor by accident.
— Christopher Walken
As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
— Christopher Walken
I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.
— Christopher Walken
I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
— Sam Rockwell
Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.
— Christopher Walken
I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
Is typecasting really a problem?
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
Bear suits are funny - and bears as well.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.
— Christopher Walken
At its best, life is completely unpredictable.
— Christopher Walken
It's impossible for me to play a part without thinking about the audience.
— Christopher Walken
I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.
— Christopher Walken
The first day of shooting I walk up to Christopher Walken, and I said, Should I call you Mr. Walken or Chris? He goes, 'Call me Flash.'
— Michael Rosenbaum
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
— Christopher Walken
To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.
— Christopher Walken
There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.
— Christopher Walken
Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.
— Christopher Walken
If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.
— Christopher Walken
There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations.
— Anthony Michael Hall
I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.
— Christopher Walken
I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.
— Christopher Walken
My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.
— Christopher Walken
I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.
— Christopher Walken
Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.
— Christopher Walken
I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
I've made a couple of movies in the jungle, and I don't want to go back to the jungle.
— Christopher Walken
I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.
— Robin Williams
My background is in musical comedy.
— Christopher Walken
I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.
— Christopher Walken
I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.
— Christopher Walken
I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.
— Christopher Walken
No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.
— Christopher Walken
I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.
— Christopher Walken
You never forget how to dance. It's just a matter of your bones working and things like that.
— Christopher Walken
I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.
— Christopher Walken
Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.
— Christopher Walken
I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.
— Christopher Walken
There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.
— Christopher Walken
The top has no limits. We can keep on climbing. That's what people do. NoThat's what I do. — Ryohgo Narita
I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
I actually really like Christopher Walken. I find him a really interesting actor. He's such a character that I love everything he's in.
— David Lambert
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.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.
— Christopher Walken
One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.
— Christopher Walken
I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.
— Christopher Walken
Even in the limo, I buckle my seatbelt. I got that seatbelt on before the car moves.
— Christopher Walken
I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.
— Christopher Walken
I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.
— Christopher Walken
I've never made a movie I wasn't surprised to see.
— Christopher Walken
I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.
— Christopher Walken
They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.
— Christopher Walken
Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.
— Christopher Walken
I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.
— Christopher Walken
Death is wonderful because you can't think about it. How are you gonna think about it?
— Christopher Walken
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!
— Christopher Walken
I remember from when I use to be a dancer, there is an expression among dancers, I had a T-shirt that said: SHUT UP AND DANCE.
— Christopher Walken
I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.
— Christopher Walken
My hair was famous before I was.
— Christopher Walken
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.
— Christopher Walken
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
— Christopher Walken
Morning is the best time to see movies.
— Christopher Walken
It's true in most movies I don't use my own voice.
— Christopher Walken
Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.
— Christopher Walken
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.
— Christopher Walken
I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.
— Christopher Walken