314 Quotes by Christopher Walken

Usually directors hire me because I’m what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it’s very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

When I’m on the road making a movie in another city, on my day off, I always go to the movies. I love going to the movies. You get a ticket and sit there, and it’s very interesting to be around people who aren’t personally invested in you, in any way. They’re just going to the movies.

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

My background is in musical comedy. I didn’t know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

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.

In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind of the same thing. You’re figuring it out and hopefully the camera is pointed at you when you’re doing it.

Too many young actors are strutting about and doing films without having developed some of the depth you need to bring off certain kinds of roles. I think that’s the problem with the system, where a lot of younger actors who haven’t had a chance to develop suddenly become stars.

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

There are certain directors where you know you’re going to be good or you’re not going to be there. There are people where you kind of know that if you miss the mark then it’ll probably not be in the movie and that’s very reassuring.