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Play 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 tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.
- I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to…
- As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
- And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these and they know that…
- I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.
- I don't play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I'd like to have a crack at one of those guys. A heartbreaker. Some…
- I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.
- Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a…
- 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 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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 think…
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