Christopher Walken Quotes

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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'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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My hair was famous before I was.

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

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

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

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

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