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
When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There… — 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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
Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck.… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I remember a few years ago I was sitting at home with my wife watching the Oscars. I was sitting on 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
