People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
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
I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways.… — 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
My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different… — 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
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
No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know,… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in… — 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
Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets… — 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't… — 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
There are movies that I've made where I thought I was going to be good, but when it was cut it together… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I have this theory about words. There's a thousand ways to say 'Pass the salt'. It could mean, you know, 'Can I… — 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
