One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around. — Christopher Walken

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience. — Christopher Walken

I became an actor by accident. — Christopher Walken

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

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer. — Christopher Walken

There’s an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what’s there. — Christopher Walken

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

There probably aren’t a lot of actors my age who tap dance. — Christopher Walken

It’s interesting–a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I’m terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing. — Christopher Walken

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience. — Christopher Walken

In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they’re still working. They just keep doing it. — Christopher Walken

I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to anything. — Christopher Walken

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. — Christopher Walken

It’s what actors call a big, juicy part, when you’re a leading man. I don’t get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things. — Christopher Walken

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. — Christopher Walken

I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy–or, I don’t tend to get those parts. I’ve tended to play eccentrics. I’ve played a lot of villains, of course. — Christopher Walken

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. — Christopher Walken

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. — Christopher Walken

Morning is the best time to see movies. — Christopher Walken

I don’t have a lot of hobbies. I don’t play golf. I don’t have any children. Things that occupy people’s time. I just try to take jobs. — Christopher Walken

Well, I was sort of a jack–of–all–trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor. — Christopher Walken

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. — Christopher Walken

I make up different names for my cat all the time–Flapjack, Bowtie, Popcorn. But he’s really, ‘Hey you, cat. — Christopher Walken

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. — 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. — Christopher Walken

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense. — Christopher Walken

At its best, life is completely unpredictable. — Christopher Walken

I think I’m getting a little bit of Alzheimer’s. Just a little. — Christopher Walken

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don’t think you can think about that. I don’t think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny. — Christopher Walken

I always like to watch comics and it’s interesting that you can tell if someone’s funny in 10 seconds. — Christopher Walken

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it’s not offensive, it’s funny? — Christopher Walken

There’s something dangerous about what’s funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary. — Christopher Walken

Bear suits are funny–and bears as well. — Christopher Walken

I’ve made a couple of movies in the jungle, and I don’t want to go back to the jungle. — Christopher Walken

I’ve never made a movie I wasn’t surprised to see. — Christopher Walken

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises. — Christopher Walken

I look for good possibilities in movies. I don’t look for perfection. — Christopher Walken

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies. — Christopher Walken

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV. — Christopher Walken

It’s true in most movies I don’t use my own voice. — Christopher Walken

I want to make movies on a soundstage. They close the door and it’s nighttime, daytime. If it has to rain, they make the rain. That’s what I like. — Christopher Walken

If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them. — Christopher Walken

I’ve done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I’m proud of… Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them. — Christopher Walken

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies. — Christopher Walken

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don’t like looking at them so much. There’s a sort of pretty thing about me. — Christopher Walken

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn’t very good in. — Christopher Walken

I make movies that nobody will see. I’ve made movies that even I have never seen. — Christopher Walken

It’s very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made. — Christopher Walken

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. — Christopher Walken

I’ve made movies that we’re very successful that we’re a complete surprise, and I’ve made movies that I thought we’re going to be very successful that, you know. — Christopher Walken

No, but way before that, I’ve been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual. — Christopher Walken

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. — Christopher Walken

I’ve made one or two movies that I haven’t even seen, because they were never released. I have made things that I never even saw. But I will always go see the movie I’m in. — Christopher Walken

I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn’t refer to anything that’s real. If it’s consistent, if it’s entertaining, if it’s interesting, it justifies its being there. — Christopher Walken

Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don’t. I never know how successful a movie is going to be–when you make a movie you’re always hoping for the best. — Christopher Walken

I’ve made quite a number of movies that I’ve never even seen and I’ve made some movies that I thought were good that nobody saw… Sometimes they end up on television. — Christopher Walken

There are places I don’t want to go. Making movies on tops of mountains, in the desert, playing scenes while icy torrents of rivers rush by. The jungle. It’s very uncomfortable. — Christopher Walken

Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He’s the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that. — Christopher Walken

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

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. — Christopher Walken

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it’s my face, the way I look. — Christopher Walken

I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue–in–cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless. — Christopher Walken

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don’t have that kind of life. I live in the country. I’ve been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat. — Christopher Walken