As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
It's impossible for me to play a part without thinking about the audience. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
If you play a king, it's better if everybody treats you like a king. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I don't play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I'd like to have a crack at one of those guys.… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I feel like you are this or that because other people say so. I wouldn't know how to play a psychopath. I… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts.… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I got to playing villains-I don't know how. I think it's like anything else, in the movies in particular that if you… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these and… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Usually in the first performances I'm completely panicked. And I pull myself together. By the time you get to the end of… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
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… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I… — Christopher Walken Copy Share
In my personal life I'm very conservative. I've been married to the same person for nearly 50 years, I'm scrupulous about paying bills, avoiding… — Christopher Walken Copy Share
I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used… — Christopher Walken Copy Share
I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's… — Christopher Walken Copy Share
An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And there's a… — Christopher Walken Copy Share
I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen. — Christopher Walken Copy Share
For me, in movies, it's always a mixed bag. I've never made a movie where I thought, "You were really good in that movie;… — Christopher Walken Copy Share
I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the… — Christopher Walken Copy Share
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 Copy Share
It's very bizarre though when you get hired and then the director will say, "I know how this goes." And you're thinking, "Wait a… — Christopher Walken Copy Share
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… — Christopher Walken Copy Share
