“There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.”
Funny
“There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.”
AgeAll Quotes by Christopher Walken
“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.”
Great“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.”
Movies“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.”
Movies“There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.”
Age“I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.”
Funny“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.”
Movies“I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.”
Amazing“Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.”
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.”
Home“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.”
Dad“I've made movies that I thought were good. 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.”
Business“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.”
Business“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.”
Business“They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.”
Hope“My hair was famous before I was.”
Famous“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.”
Age“My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.”
Movies“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?”
Funny“I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.”
Movies