Christopher Walken

I've never made a movie I wasn't surprised to see.

— Christopher Walken

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

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

— Christopher Walken

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

— Christopher Walken

Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

— 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…

— Christopher Walken

All actors do what they do differently, and it doesn't matter.

— Christopher Walken

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

— Christopher Walken

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.

— 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

I don't even like holding them. Whenever I hold a gun, I want to get it out of my hand as quick…

— Christopher Walken

I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a…

— 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…

— Christopher Walken

I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my…

— Christopher Walken

I've never done that [fighting for arole]. You hear about actors going in and saying, "You've got to let me read for…

— 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…

— Christopher Walken

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a…

— 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.…

— Christopher Walken

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

Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving on the road…

— Christopher Walken

When I'm on the road making a movie in another city, on my day off, I always go to the movies. I…

— Christopher Walken

Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets…

— Christopher Walken

When I was a teenager and all these shows were on I was in that business, so I knew a lot of…

— Christopher Walken

It's very bizarre though when you get hired and then the director will say, "I know how this goes." And you're thinking,…

— Christopher Walken

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…

— Christopher Walken

It takes a very long time to read a script. I'll look at a script, but there are so many scripts. I…

— Christopher Walken

I don't know why people eat so badly. I could eat pasta all the time, but it really is fattening. And I…

— Christopher Walken

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

— Christopher Walken

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

— 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…

— Christopher Walken

I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.

— Christopher Walken

Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.

— 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 always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.

— Christopher Walken

It's impossible for me to play a part without thinking about the audience.

— Christopher Walken

One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.

— Christopher Walken

My life has been wonderful. Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

— Christopher Walken

I make up different names for my cat all the time - Flapjack, Bowtie, Popcorn. But he's really, "Hey you, cat."

— 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