Top 121 Quotes by Christopher Walken

Morning is the best time to see movies.

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

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.

I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who want to take over something.

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

I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.

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.

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.