Christopher Walken Quotes

When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

I've always been singing, and acting was just something that happened.

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

I sort of fell into acting.

I kind of fell into acting.

I first started stage acting at the age of four when I joined a local Stagecoach group.

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

My singing led into acting, and that is how I discovered acting.

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.

I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.

I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.

Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

Since I was a child, I've been playing children. When I was little, I was the kid that you'd hire to do the reading or workshop of your new material.

I am lucky that I get to play a singer and an actress.

I started doing musicals, but the acting bug bit when I did a four-week Shakespeare workshop.

I began acting when I was very young, maybe 5 or so? Just by going to acting classes and that sort of thing.

Acting has always been a part of my life as far as I can remember.

I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.