Christopher Walken Quotes & Sayings (Page 11)

“I've been to Chicago a lot - it's one of my favorite places. My wife is from Chicago, and I worked in the theater there a lot.”

“Is typecasting really a problem?”

“It's true in most movies I don't use my own voice.”

“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.”

“Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.”

“My life has been wonderful. Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.”

“One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've 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 I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.”