I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show. Christopher Walken More Quotes by Christopher Walken More Quotes From Christopher Walken Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving on the road at night I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly, head-on into the oncoming car. I can anticipate the explosion. The sound of shattering glass. The flames rising out of the flowing gasoline. Christopher Walken artistnightthinking 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. Christopher Walken new-yorkkidsschool It takes a very long time to read a script. I'll look at a script, but there are so many scripts. I remember once being at the dentist, and the guy was doing my teeth and telling me about the screenplay he'd written and he said, "Will you read it?" And I said "Oh...okay." And it turns out that it was about a dentist! Christopher Walken scriptsguylong 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. Christopher Walken catanimaltalking 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. Christopher Walken funnypeoplethinking It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made. Christopher Walken scriptsreadingmade When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing. Christopher Walken nameskidsthinking Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over. Christopher Walken tryingdirectors When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit. Christopher Walken menkidsson 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. Christopher Walken be-kindmusicalactors My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen. Christopher Walken differentlooksthinking 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. Christopher Walken citiesnew-yorkthinking One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father. Christopher Walken playfatherthinking I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you. Christopher Walken realnew-yorkthinking 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. Christopher Walken hometwothinking I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes. Christopher Walken playmeanthinking 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. Christopher Walken businessyearsthinking The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking. Christopher Walken cookinghouseinteresting To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look. Christopher Walken reasoncharacterlooks 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. Christopher Walken realinterestingthinking
