“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
“Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.”
FunnyAll Quotes by Christopher Walken
“My hair was famous before I was.”
Famous“There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.”
Funny“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.”
Business“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“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“Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.”
Experience“I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.”
Movies“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.”
Business“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'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.”
Amazing“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“There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.”
Age“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“Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.”
Power“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.”
Wedding“I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.”
Movies“They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.”
Hope“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“My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.”
Movies