Thinking Quotes by Christopher Walken

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

— Christopher Walken

I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.

— Christopher Walken

I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.

— Christopher Walken

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

— Christopher Walken

Death is wonderful because you can't think about it. How are you gonna think about it?

— Christopher Walken

Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.

— Christopher Walken

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

— Christopher Walken

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier,…

— Christopher Walken

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality…

— 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

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

— Christopher Walken

My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different…

— Christopher Walken

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It…

— Christopher Walken

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

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.

— Christopher Walken

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's…

— Christopher Walken

I've been very fortunate, because I've been involved in things that very often lead to obscurity. I was in some pictures that…

— Christopher Walken

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in…

— Christopher Walken

There's not a lot of talking between actors - either between actors or between actors and directors. People think that they sit…

— Christopher Walken

I don't think I'd be a good director because people would ask me, you know, "What is it? What's going on here?…

— Christopher Walken

I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you…

— Christopher Walken

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

You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in…

— 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

It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best…

— Christopher Walken

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

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

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

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

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

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

I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But…

— Christopher Walken

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

Too many young actors are strutting about and doing films without having developed some of the depth you need to bring off…

— Christopher Walken

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the…

— Christopher Walken

The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two…

— Christopher Walken

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born…

— Christopher Walken

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play…

— Christopher Walken

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,…

— Christopher Walken

And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these and…

— Christopher Walken