All Christopher Walken Quotes
- I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose… Accident
- I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to… Actor
- I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's… All
- I don't know why people eat so badly. I could eat pasta all the time, but it really is fattening. And I love ice cream,… All
- I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a… Anymore
- I like cats a lot. I've always liked cats. They're great company. When they eat, they always leave a little bit at the bottom of… Always Leave
- I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that's about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same… All
- I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you… Funny
- I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who… Been
- I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because… Based
- I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies… Action
- 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 entertaining,… Consistent
- I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I… Been
- I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of… Defy
- I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York… Age
- 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 point… Affected
- I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time… Absolutely
- I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish… Business
- I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along… Along
- Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around.… Absolutely