Christopher Walken Quotes

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.

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 can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.

My hair was famous before I was.

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 people are born to it. I'm not.

I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.

I've done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I'm proud of... Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

Bear suits are funny - and bears as well.

I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection.

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.

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

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

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 when independent movies were starting to boom.

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

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

Usually in the first performances I'm completely panicked. And I pull myself together. By the time you get to the end of the play, you really start to have fun.

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

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

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I've made one or two movies that I haven't even seen, because they were never released. I have made things that I never even saw. But I will always go see the movie I'm in.

I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can't - you can't do that.

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.

Is typecasting really a problem?

I make up different names for my cat all the time - Flapjack, Bowtie, Popcorn. But he's really, "Hey you, cat."

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

Even in the limo, I buckle my seatbelt. I got that seatbelt on before the car moves.

It's not necessarily how many minutes you're on screen, it's the material you have. It's more important what it is you have to do than the amount of time you're there.

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.

People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.

Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

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