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Actor Quotes by Christopher Walken
- An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
- I became an actor by accident.
- I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals…
- Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
- Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.
- As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
- I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.
- 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 what…
- It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of…
- Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.
- There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.
- There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.
- Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do…
- I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a…
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