Christopher Walken Quotes, Thoughts and images

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.

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

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

My hair was famous before I was.

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

Bear suits are funny - and bears as well.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.

My favourite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

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

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

I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!

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.

I remember from when I use to be a dancer, there is an expression among dancers, I had a T-shirt that said: SHUT UP AND DANCE.

Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.

Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

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

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

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

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

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.

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

I don't even like holding them. Whenever I hold a gun, I want to get it out of my hand as quick as possible.

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

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

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

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.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

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.

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

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.