Latest Christopher Walken Quotes from Interviews

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• I get a lot of invitations, and sometimes it's far away, it's in Montana or something. "We'd like you to come to our daughter's wedding." These are people I've never heard of. I get a lot that. "Will you come to my son's graduation?" No...I guess when you're in stuff, it's almost a feeling that they know you.

  Christopher Walken

  Daughter, Son, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

  Christopher Walken

  Reading, Scripts, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It takes a very long time to read a script. I'll look at a script, but there are so many scripts. I remember once being at the dentist, and the guy was doing my teeth and telling me about the screenplay he'd written and he said, "Will you read it?" And I said "Oh...okay." And it turns out that it was about a dentist!

  Christopher Walken

  Long, Guy, Scripts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If I show somebody something that I've written and they say, "Eh...alright," I just put it away and I never show it to anyone again. But I know people who won't take no for an answer, and eventually someone pays attention.

  Christopher Walken

  People, Attention, Answers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I suppose in order to succeed at something you have to be very persistent. I've never done that.

  Christopher Walken

  Order, Done, Succeed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Actors, Stuff, Scripts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I make up different names for my cat all the time - Flapjack, Bowtie, Popcorn. But he's really, "Hey you, cat."

  Christopher Walken

  Cat, Names, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Country, Cat, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I got [Muhammad Ali's boxing shorts] for $40 at an auction. Nobody wanted them. I have them framed in my house.

  Christopher Walken

  Boxing, House, Auctions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Of course they may have corrected it by now, but the original titles at the end of Annie Hall say "Christophe Vlaken." It was just inconceivable. These things are checked...I don't know what that was about. I'd never seen or heard of it. How they came up with the name Christophe Vlaken, it must've been a conspiracy. I did ask about it but nobody knew.

  Christopher Walken

  Names, Annie Hall, Titles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Rain, Doors, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Rivers, Mountain, Desert

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I was a teenager and all these shows were on I was in that business, so I knew a lot of people in the theaters and I saw many of the great shows many times. I would go in and stand in the back - they would let me in, they knew me. I saw Fiddler on the Roof, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Gypsy, and Funny Girl many times just standing in the back.

  Christopher Walken

  Girl, Teenager, Funny Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But the camera's different. I think I'm more at home on stage.

  Christopher Walken

  Home, Thinking, Dancing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• All actors do what they do differently, and it doesn't matter.

  Christopher Walken

  Actors, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's not a lot of talking between actors - either between actors or between actors and directors. People think that they sit in rooms and talk about psychology and motivations. I don't think that happens much.

  Christopher Walken

  Motivation, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best people I could and then leave them alone. I don't know much about cameras or lighting, so I'd make sure that I had a really good cameraman who understood lenses and lighting, and I say to him, "This is the scene we have to shoot and this is what I think it should be, you go do it." Same with actors. But really, very good directors who know everything do basically the same thing. They hire you and then they leave you alone.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've never done that [fighting for arole]. You hear about actors going in and saying, "You've got to let me read for this!" I've never done that. Lots of parts I've wanted and didn't get, but I think any actor would say that.

  Christopher Walken

  Fighting, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.

  Christopher Walken

  Opportunity, Obvious Things, Hunters

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• A job leads to a job, just like anything else, and it became apparent that this was probably what I was going to keep doing.

  Christopher Walken

  Jobs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in a play and kept going. But I never set out to be an actor; it happened over time.

  Christopher Walken

  Jobs, Play, Musical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In my personal life I'm very conservative. I've been married to the same person for nearly 50 years, I'm scrupulous about paying bills, avoiding debt. I'm very careful. But as an actor I'm pretty reckless. I've done a lot of things that, when I see myself on screen, I have to shut my eyes. And I've made a whole bunch of movies that nobody sees, including me.

  Christopher Walken

  Eye, Years, Actors

  Source: www.timeout.com

• 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

  Nice, Missing, Actors

  Source: www.timeout.com

• Older actors, and women in particular, are getting more opportunities. It pleases me, its very good news for us. They say that people are living longer, and maybe it's just that there's more of us out there.

  Christopher Walken

  Opportunity, Please Me, People

  Source: www.timeout.com

• 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.

  Christopher Walken

  Baseball, Dream, Character

  Source: www.gamesradar.com