Christopher Walken Quotes

It has happened with me that I get a role of a cop for a film. Few directors typecast you if you do that particular role well. But, it is the actor who has to decide whether he fits in that role or not.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

I am looking to play powerful characters and as far as biopics are concerned.

I try to choose characters that are very different; I think I have succeeded in that. A big role or a small one does not bother me at all. What matters is that I should have a rapport with the director.

I would love to act in films if people think I am right for a particular role.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

In 2005, I had the great honor of playing Shailene Woodley's mother in 'Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.' I was immediately impressed by her work ethic, both on and off set.

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he was out there.

Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.