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Quotes by Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken

“You know ... acting is not very difficult, once you know how to do it, ... And thats ... so beautiful, because you can say that about anything: Its not difficult, once you know how.”

“I dont need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.”

“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.”

“I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think its my face, the way I look.”

“I was a little kid, 10 or 12, ... I remember exactly ... transistor radios had just happened. When transistor radios happened, that was huge. And everybody had this little thing. And I was on a bus — I had been to the skating rink in Flushing [Queens, New York], near where I lived. And we were on the bus, and some kid had a transistor radio and it came over the radio. When Giant came out, he was already gone. Yeah, that was a very big deal.”

“And I remember sitting in my car, listening to that night ... when Kennedy and Khrushchev were facing off and it was very scary.”

“Catch Me If You Can.”

“It was a wonderful movie. Very popular. Many people saw it. Oscar.”

“Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.”

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but Ive never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes its terrific and sometimes its not.

My hair was famous before I was.

Morning is the best time to see movies.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

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.

Ill tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I like to go to work, and also, I dont have any kids. I dont have any hobbies. I dont like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

My life is really quite conservative. Ive been married nearly 50 years. I dont have hobbies or children. I dont much care to travel. Ive never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.

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.

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 dont like looking at them so much. Theres a sort of pretty thing about me.