I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can… — 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
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 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
