Christopher Walken Quotes

Christopher Walken delivers wild, punchy lines that blend humor with menace, perfect for a quick laugh or a thrill.

33 quotes

1. Guess what!?! I got a fever!....And the only prescription is more cowbell.

2. I put my pants on just like the rest of you - one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.

3. I pranked him! To death with a tire iron! Whammy! Blammy wowie zowie!

4. If she tries to blackmail me, I'll throw her out a higher window.

5. You're not a tease, are you? 'Cause I'll cut your face.

6. So he hid [the watch] in the one place he knew he could hide something-his ass.

7. :You got me in a vendetta kinda mood. You tell the angels in heaven you've never seen an evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you.

8. You're talkin' to my guy all wrong. It's the wrong tone. You do it again, I'll stab you in the face with a soldering iron.

9. What do you call a room full of lawyers buried up to their necks in sand? Not enough sand.

10. Did you see my painting? I got it from Target

11. I'm the malevolent WASP.

12. In my personal life I'm very conservative. I've been married to the same person for nearly 50 years, I'm scrupulous about paying bills, avoiding debt. I'm very careful. But as an actor I'm pretty reckless. I've done a lot of things that, when I see myself on screen, I have to shut my eyes. And I've made a whole bunch of movies that nobody sees, including me.

13. I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.

14. I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.

15. An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And there's a lot of them! And they cast a cold eye, because they paid. To be on the stage, you have to be very secure.

16. I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

20. In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.

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

22. I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

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

24. It's very bizarre though when you get hired and then the director will say, "I know how this goes." And you're thinking, "Wait a minute, I thought that I was doing this" but basically what they really want, especially if they wrote it, is they want you to do it as they imagined it. It's virtually impossible.

25. It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

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

27. I get a lot of invitations, and sometimes it's far away, it's in Montana or something. "We'd like you to come to our daughter's wedding." These are people I've never heard of. I get a lot that. "Will you come to my son's graduation?" No...I guess when you're in stuff, it's almost a feeling that they know you.

28. 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.

29. By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

30. I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.

31. One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.

32. As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.

33. It's true in most movies I don't use my own voice.