Christopher Walken Quotes

• I’ve made movies that we’re very successful that we’re a complete surprise, and I’ve made movies that I thought we’re going to be very successful that, you know.

  Christopher Walken

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• I’ve 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Musical, Independent, Pretty

• I’ve 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.

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• 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

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  Tags in Good, Couple

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

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  Tags in Favorite, Successful

• No, but way before that, I’ve 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

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  Tags in Music, Amazing, Chance

• Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

  Christopher Walken

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  Tags in Actor, Obviously

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

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  Tags in Wonderful, Improvise

• 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.

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  Tags in Think, Happened, Suddenly

• The best thing for me is, when I’m 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.

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

  Christopher Walken

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  Tags in Hope, Thing

• The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can’t. You know, it’s an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

  Christopher Walken

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  Tags in Living, Acting, Realize

• When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it’s 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

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  Tags in Think, True, Joined

• 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

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Come, Things

• 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

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  Tags in Training, Comedy, Musical

Christopher Walken (35)

Birth:	31st March, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Film Director, Screenwriter

About

Christopher Walken was born in Astoria, Queens, New York City.  He is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He has appeared in more than 100 films and television shows. He has received a number of awards and nominations during his career, including winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1978 for his portrayal of Nikanor "Nick" Chebotarevich in The Deer Hunter. He is a popular guest-host of Saturday Night Live, having hosted seven times as of April 2008. He debuted as a film director and script writer with the short film Popcorn Shrimp in 2001. He also wrote and acted the main role in a play about his idol Elvis Presley titled Him, in 1995.

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