314 Quotes by Christopher Walken

I think if you do something effectively whether you’re the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you’ll get asked to play that part again.

I’m a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I’m a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It’s like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees...

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It’s very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don’t have to think about them.

If you’re an actor, a hard thing is to stick around, to stay viable. I try to do that by taking the opportunity to do something different every once in awhile.

I don’t have kids. Maybe that’s kept me young. I have a wife for almost 50 years and she looks after me a little bit like I was seven years-old.

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

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the ’50s, that’s affected my personality to the point that I’m a little different.

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

When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn’t have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.