Christopher Walken on acting

"Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them."

Quote on playing villians

"I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own."

Christopher Walken quote on life

"At its best, life is completely unpredictable."

On being a pretty boy

"I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me."

Christopher Walken on guns

"I don't even like holding them. Whenever I hold a gun, I want to get it out of my hand as quick as possible."

No commercials for Christopher Walken

"I won't do commercials either. I don't want to sell anything. As an actor, it's tricky. You have this platform and it has to do with your face, your charisma. It's tricky when you endorse something because people are liable to believe you. Be careful."

On his hair

"My hair was famous before I was."

Quote on Pulp Fiction

"I put aside an hour every day to go over that monologue again and again for months, and every time I got to the end of it, I would crack up."

Chistopher Walken quote on being funny

"There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary."

Christopher Walken got the girl in life, but not in the movies

"There are just certain roles - well, they never ask me to play the guy that gets the girl, even though I've been married for 41 years now, so I did get the girl."