Christopher Walken Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• 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.

  Christopher Walken

  Musical, Training, Theatre

• My background is in musical comedy.

  Christopher Walken

  Musical, Comedy, Backgrounds

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

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

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, People, Challenges

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part of the thing. It's like Elizabethan theater. You play the scene, and then you turn - the audience is part of it.

  Christopher Walken

  Play, Musical, Actors

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

• I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

  Christopher Walken

  Teenager, Musical, Actors

  "Christopher Walken Interview - HAIRSPRAY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2007.

• Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

  Christopher Walken

  Funny, Thinking, Play

• 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.

  Christopher Walken

  Musical, Actors, Be Kind

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

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