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Christopher Walken (Actor)

Ill tell you how that happened. When I was a dancer, Monique Van Vooren had a nightclub act and she uses three guys as backup. Shed sing French and we would dance and provide vocals. She would introduce us at the end of the show and one night she said to me, You know, I dont really like ‘Ronnie. I think you are more ‘Christopher. Do you mind if I call you Christopher? I said, Call me anything you like, just dont call me late for lunch.

— Christopher Walken mind

Ive made movies that were very successful that were a complete surprise, and Ive made movies that I thought were going to be very successful that, you know.

— Christopher Walken success

Ive 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 art

Ive never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.

— Christopher Walken art

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.

— Christopher Walken life

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

— Christopher Walken success

No, but way before that, Ive 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 music

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what youre doing.

— Christopher Walken sin

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

— Christopher Walken experience

One thing thats happened to me is Ive been around a long time and Ive played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think Im suddenly starting to play peoples father.

— Christopher Walken time

The best thing for me is, when Im not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.

— Christopher Walken work

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I cant. You know, its an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

— Christopher Walken art

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.

— Christopher Walken hope

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But its not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

— Christopher Walken true

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 life

Yeah, well Ive always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and thats really where my training is. As an actor, thats my training.

— Christopher Walken music

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. Its very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I dont have to think about them.

— Christopher Walken words

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. Hes the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.

— Christopher Walken good

Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.

— Christopher Walken time

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

— Christopher Walken media

And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these and they know that thats Chris and hes having fun and he knows that and he knows that and you know that and everybody knows that.

— Christopher Walken body

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

— Christopher Walken light

Because if I dont know my lines, I really dont know what Im doing.

— Christopher Walken real

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

— Christopher Walken body

I dont carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.

— Christopher Walken believe

I live sort of in the country and I like that. Its very quiet, its beautiful.

— Christopher Walken beautiful

I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if theyre annoyed. You can tell whether theyre scared.

— Christopher Walken animals

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didnt have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didnt want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

— Christopher Walken business

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

— Christopher Walken love

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 music

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... Thats why its good to defy expectations sometimes.

— Christopher Walken time

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 time

I try not to worry about things I cant do anything about.

— Christopher Walken worry

Id love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.

— Christopher Walken love

Im not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

— Christopher Walken

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