314 Quotes by Christopher Walken

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!

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 it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I’m suddenly starting to play people’s father.

I don’t know why people eat so badly. I could eat pasta all the time, but it really is fattening. And I love ice cream, but I can’t do that. There was a time, until I was in my mid-forties, when I could eat a whole pizza – and really, no effect.

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.

Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I’m a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

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.

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

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 want to take over something.

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.