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• I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.

• 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.

• As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

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

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

• And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these and they know that that's Chris and he's having fun and he knows that and he knows that and you know that and everybody knows that.

• You know, in the movies, if you're a movie actor, if they want you, it doesn't matter what their reason is, it's okay.

• Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.

• I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.

• Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

• Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

• I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.

• 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.

• I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

• I never trained as an actor. I trained as, you know, musical comedy. You know, where the audience is part of the show.

• I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

• You know ... acting is not very difficult, once you know how to do it, ... And that's ... so beautiful, because you can say that about anything: It's not difficult, once you know how.

• 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 think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

• I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

• I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.

• I'd 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 try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

• Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• My father was a baker and a lot of people do what their families did and I could have done that but I wanted to stay in show business.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

• 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.

• That was great. That was one of the great things. You take jobs to be with good actors and the director was terrific.

• They are funny and also they're funny together. They're a very good team. I wouldn't be surprised if they made more movies together.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene.

• When you're an actor, you do a lot of the same kind of thing. It's great when someone gets you to do something that's a little surprising.

• 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.

• 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 Filmography

2008 - Citizen Brando
2008 - The Lonely Maiden
2008 - Five Dollars a Day
2007 - Romance & Cigarettes
2007 - Balls of Fury
2007 - Hairspray
2006 - Man of the Year
2006 - Click
2005 - Domino
2005 - Wedding Crashers
2004 - Man On Fire
2004 - Around the Bend
2004 - The Stepford Wives
2004 - Envy
2003 - Gigli
2003 - The Rundown
2003 - Kangaroo Jack
2002 - The Country Bears
2002 - Julius Caesar
2002 - Poolhall Junkies
2002 - Plots with a View
2002 - Catch Me if You Can
2001 - Popcorn Shrimp
2001 - Scotland, Pa.
2001 - America's Sweethearts
2001 - The Affair of the Necklace
2001 - Joe Dirt
2000 - The Opportunists
2000 - The Prophecy 3: The Ascent
1999 - Blast from the Past
1999 - Vendetta
1999 - Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
1999 - Kiss Toledo Goodbye
1999 - Sleepy Hollow
1998 - Antz
1998 - Trance
1998 - New Rose Hotel
1998 - Illuminata
1998 - The Prophecy II
1997 - Mousehunt
1997 - Suicide Kings
1997 - Excess Baggage
1996 - Last Man Standing
1995 - Wild Side
1995 - Seek and Destroy
1995 - Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
1995 - The Addiction
1995 - The Prophecy
1995 - Nick of Time
1995 - The Funeral
1994 - Pulp Fiction
1994 - A Business Affair
1993 - Wayne's World 2
1993 - True Romance
1993 - Skylark
1993 - Scam
1992 - All-American Murder
1992 - Day of Atonement
1992 - Batman Returns
1992 - Mistress
1991 - McBain
1991 - Sarah, Plain and Tall
1990 - The Comfort of Strangers
1990 - King of New York
1989 - Communion
1988 - Homeboy
1988 - Puss in Boots
1988 - Biloxi Blues
1988 - The Milagro Beanfield War
1987 - Deadline
1986 - At Close Range
1985 - A View to a Kill
1983 - The Dead Zone
1983 - Brainstorm
1983 - Who Am I This Time?
1981 - Pennies from Heaven
1981 - The Dogs of War
1980 - Heaven's Gate
1979 - Last Embrace
1978 - The Deer Hunter
1978 - Shoot the Sun Down
1977 - Roseland
1977 - Annie Hall
1977 - The Sentinel
1976 - Next Stop, Greenwich Village
1975 - Valley Forge
1972 - The Happiness Cage
1971 - The Anderson Tapes
1969 - Me and My Brother
1969 - The Three Musketeers

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