As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around. — 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
There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
As an actor I'm rather hit and miss, I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
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… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
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… — 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
There's not a lot of talking between actors - either between actors or between actors and directors. People think that they sit… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes,… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager and all these shows were on I was in that business, so I knew a lot of… — 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
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And… — 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
It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I'm a better actor now than I ever was, I wish I could have hurried that up, but there's no way. Anyway,… — 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
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor,… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
If you're an actor, a hard thing is to stick around, to stay viable. I try to do that by taking the… — 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
