314 Quotes by Christopher Walken

By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn’t go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

I’m not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

As an actor I’m rather hit and miss, I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn’t. But this is a nice part.

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.

In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That’s the great thing about the theater.

Death is wonderful because you can’t think about it. How are you gonna think about it?

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

Yeah, well I’ve always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that’s really where my training is. As an actor, that’s my training.

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