Christopher Walken Quotes - Page 3

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• 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 don’t like looking at them so much. There’s a sort of pretty thing about me.

  Christopher Walken

  Boys, Thinking, Looks

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

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• If you're an actor, a hard thing is to stick around, to stay viable. I try to do that by taking the opportunity to do something different every once in awhile.

  Christopher Walken

  Opportunity, Trying, Different

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• Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving on the road at night I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly, head-on into the oncoming car. I can anticipate the explosion. The sound of shattering glass. The flames rising out of the flowing gasoline.

  Christopher Walken

  Artist, Night, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Duane". "Annie Hall", www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• 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

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• Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

  Christopher Walken

  Optimistic, Enterprise

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• Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

  Christopher Walken

  Natural, Audience

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• I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

  Christopher Walken

  Evil, Needs, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

  Christopher Walken

  Jobs, Dad, Father

  "Christopher Walken: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 14, 2009.

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• To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

  Christopher Walken

  Character, Looks, Reason

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• To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

  Christopher Walken

  Ambitious, Honest, Being Honest

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

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• I remember from when I use to be a dancer, there is an expression among dancers, I had a T-shirt that said: SHUT UP AND DANCE.

  Christopher Walken

  Expression, Dancer, Use

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• 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. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.

  Christopher Walken

  Jobs, Dad, Play

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• When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.

  Christopher Walken

  Kids, Guitar, Hands

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

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• Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.

  Christopher Walken

  Gun, Nervous, Imagine

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

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• I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can't - you can't do that.

  Christopher Walken

  Pounds, Spaghetti, Thirty

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

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• You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

  Christopher Walken

  Fall, Thinking, People

  "Christopher Walken Offered Natalie Wood Death Theory in Past Interview" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2011.

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

  Christopher Walken

  Movie, Play, Actors

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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

  Couple, Good Life, Father

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 6, 2004.

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• I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

  Christopher Walken

  Psychologist

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• I'm a better actor now than I ever was, I wish I could have hurried that up, but there's no way. Anyway, I always wanted to be around for a long time. Like a European actor, I hope I live a long time and that I'm acting until I finish.

  Christopher Walken

  Long, Wish, Acting

  "Christopher Walken Shows Charming Side". The Toronto Star, February 04, 1993.

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• The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.

  Christopher Walken

  Interesting, House, Cooking

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• Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

  Christopher Walken

  Funny, People, Guy

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• Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.

  Christopher Walken

  Innocence, Sometimes, Certain

  Source: www.donshewey.com

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• One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.

  Christopher Walken

  Actors, Sticks, Difficult

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

  Christopher Walken

  Jobs, Long, Dancer

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