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Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

~Christopher Walken

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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.

~Christopher Walken

Topics: Actor Doing Good Good Actors Impression Interesting Know Lot Nobody Terrible Tried Would I Tried

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

~Christopher Walken

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I don't like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don't much like driving, either. I prefer to be driven. And, when I'm in London, I don't even like walking on the street. I can never get used to looking the right way when I cross the street.

~Christopher Walken

Topics: Best Cross Driven Driving Either Even Flying Get Less Like London Looking Much Never Older Prefer Right Right Way Street Times Used Walking Way I Can

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I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.

~Christopher Walken

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Quite often, I'll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I'll do it. But then they rewrite it for me. They make it quirky. Odd. I find that rather annoying. I call it Walkenising.

~Christopher Walken

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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.

~Christopher Walken

Topics: Closer Fathers Get Grandfathers Like Maybe Myself Now Older People Play Uncles I Can

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Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.

~Christopher Walken

Topics: About Cannot Doing Exactly Exactly What Improvise Improvising Kind Know Paradoxical Thing Unless Wonderful You

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I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

~Christopher Walken

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I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that's about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same time - make a chicken or slice vegetables - and all day long I just read it over and over and over.

~Christopher Walken

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: March 31st, 1943

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