Christopher Walken Quotes - Page 8

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• I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

  Christopher Walken

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, People, Work Out

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• My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

  Christopher Walken

  Musical, Actors, Be Kind

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

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• My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, Different, Looks

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• 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.

  Christopher Walken

  Father, Thinking, Play

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• Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

  Christopher Walken

  Trying, Directors

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• I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

  Christopher Walken

  Uncles, Father, Long

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

  Christopher Walken

  Bob, Kind, Crosby

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• There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

  Christopher Walken

  Birthday, Age, Actors

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

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• Too many young actors are strutting about and doing films without having developed some of the depth you need to bring off certain kinds of roles. I think that's the problem with the system, where a lot of younger actors who haven't had a chance to develop suddenly become stars.

  Christopher Walken

  Stars, Thinking, Depth

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.

  Christopher Walken

  Successful, Work Out, Sometimes

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, Alzheimer's, Littles

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• I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

  Christopher Walken

  Children, Actors, Performers

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

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• I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.

  Christopher Walken

  Writing, Most Amazing, Tarantino

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• I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

  Christopher Walken

  Writing, Cooking, Might

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• I've never made a movie I wasn't surprised to see.

  Christopher Walken

  Made

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I've made quite a number of movies that I've never even seen and I've made some movies that I thought were good that nobody saw... Sometimes they end up on television.

  Christopher Walken

  Numbers, Television, Saws

  Source: the-talks.com

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• 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.

  Christopher Walken

  Wife, Chicago, Favorite Places

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• There are certain directors where you know you're going to be good or you're not going to be there. There are people where you kind of know that if you miss the mark then it'll probably not be in the movie and that's very reassuring.

  Christopher Walken

  People, Missing, Directors

  Source: the-talks.com

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• For me, in movies, it's always a mixed bag. I've never made a movie where I thought, "You were really good in that movie; you were good all the time." No. It's always, "You didn't get it, you didn't do it in that scene, but the other scene is pretty good." So I just hope that in balance there's more good scenes than not.

  Christopher Walken

  Balance, Bags, Scene

  Source: the-talks.com

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• 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.

  Christopher Walken

  Men, Actors, Juicy

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• Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

  Christopher Walken

  Experience, Actors, Draws

  "Interview: Christopher Walken" By Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 6, 2004.

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• 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

  Movie, Afterlife, Video

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• If you play a king, it's better if everybody treats you like a king.

  Christopher Walken

  Kings, Play, Treats

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.

  Christopher Walken

  Way, Finance, Figures

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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