“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.”
AgeAll Quotes by Christopher Walken
“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.”
Movies“My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.”
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“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 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 that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.”
Wedding“I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.”
Movies“I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.”
Travel“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 have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.”
Movies“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 always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.”
Funny“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.”
Movies“I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.”
Amazing“There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.”
Age“They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.”
Hope“I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.”
Funny“Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.”
Experience“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