Christopher Walken Quotes

I became an actor by accident.
Christopher Walken

Actor, Accident

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 lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.
Christopher Walken

Live, Whole, Kids

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.
Christopher Walken

Good, Movies, Thought

I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.
Christopher Walken

Beautiful, Live, Country

I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.
Christopher Walken

Movies, Made, Seen

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.
Christopher Walken

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 I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
Christopher Walken

Business, Nothing, Wanted

I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.
Christopher Walken

Getting, Bit, Alzheimer

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 are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
Christopher Walken

Movies, Play, Again

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 would have made a lot more musical movies.
Christopher Walken

Business, Movies, Made

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 villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.
Christopher Walken

Good, Mean, Play

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 that I'm a little different.
Christopher Walken

Business, Different, Fact

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

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.
Christopher Walken

Movies, Pretty, Used

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

Love, Father, Used

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.
Christopher Walken

Parents, Friends, America

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.
Christopher Walken

Child, Actor, Performer

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

Amazing, Tell, Dialogue

I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.
Christopher Walken

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 I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.
Christopher Walken

Time, Character, Saying

I've made movies that I thought were good. 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 more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.
Christopher Walken

Good, Business, Movies

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.
Christopher Walken

Movies, Successful, Thought

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.
Christopher Walken

Good, Movies, Made

I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.
Christopher Walken

Wedding, Someone, Difficult

Is typecasting really a problem?
Christopher Walken

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: March 31, 1943

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