Top 160 Christopher Walken Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.”

— Christopher Walken

2. “I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.”

— Christopher Walken

3. “If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people.”

— Christopher Walken

4. “At its best, life is completely unpredictable.”

— Christopher Walken

5. “Bear suits are funny – and bears as well.”

— Christopher Walken

6. “You never forget how to dance. It’s just a matter of your bones working and things like that.”

— Christopher Walken

7. “Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.”

— Christopher Walken

8. “I’m better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I’m not around.”

— Christopher Walken

9. “Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don’t. I never know how successful a movie is going to be – when you make a movie you’re always hoping for the best.”

— Christopher Walken

10. “I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can’t – you can’t do that.”

— Christopher Walken

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

— Christopher Walken

12. “Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.”

— Christopher Walken

13. “I don’t carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.”

— Christopher Walken

14. “Too many young actors are strutting about and doing films without having developed some of the depth you need to bring off certain kinds of roles. I think that’s the problem with the system, where a lot of younger actors who haven’t had a chance to develop suddenly become stars.”

— Christopher Walken

15. “As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.”

— Christopher Walken

16. “By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn’t go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.”

— Christopher Walken

17. “As an actor I’m rather hit and miss, I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn’t. But this is a nice part.”

— Christopher Walken

18. “Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.”

— Christopher Walken

19. “Death is wonderful because you can’t think about it. How are you gonna think about it?”

— Christopher Walken

20. “I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.”

— Christopher Walken

21. “The last time I did a movie that needed a horse, I said: ‘If it moves, I’m out of here.’ The worst thing is, they know when you’re afraid and act up accordingly. I’ve had them run off on me. Horses I do not like.”

— Christopher Walken

22. “I like cats a lot. I’ve always liked cats. They’re great company. When they eat, they always leave a little bit at the bottom of the bowl. A dog will polish the bowl, but a cat always leaves a little bit. It’s like an offering.”

— Christopher Walken

23. “I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.”

— Christopher Walken

24. “I don’t have kids. Maybe that’s kept me young. I have a wife for almost 50 years and she looks after me a little bit like I was seven years-old.”

— Christopher Walken

25. “I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.”

— Christopher Walken

26. “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

27. “My life is really quite conservative. I’ve been married nearly 50 years. I don’t have hobbies or children. I don’t much care to travel. I’ve never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.”

— Christopher Walken

28. “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

29. “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

30. “Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It’s a rhythm thing – people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.”

— Christopher Walken

31. “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

32. “Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it’s not offensive, it’s funny?”

— Christopher Walken

33. “No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you’re doing.”

— Christopher Walken

34. “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

35. “I don’t play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I’d like to have a crack at one of those guys. A heartbreaker. Some people are born to it. I’m not.”

— Christopher Walken

36. “You know, there’s nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you’re doing, yourself, if you figure you’re doing the right thing.”

— Christopher Walken

37. “My hair was famous before I was.”

— Christopher Walken

38. “I’m an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why.”

— Christopher Walken

39. “I don’t have a lot of hobbies. I don’t play golf. I don’t have any children. Things that occupy people’s time. I just try to take jobs.”

— Christopher Walken

40. “I don’t need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.”

— Christopher Walken

41. “No, but way before that, I’ve been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.”

— Christopher Walken

42. “I’ve been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!”

— Christopher Walken

43. “I think I’m getting a little bit of Alzheimer’s. Just a little.”

— Christopher Walken

44. “My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.”

— Christopher Walken

45. “I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.”

— Christopher Walken

46. “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

47. “I like to go to work, and also, I don’t have any kids. I don’t have any hobbies. I don’t like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.”

— Christopher Walken

48. “I always like to watch comics and it’s interesting that you can tell if someone’s funny in 10 seconds.”

— Christopher Walken

49. “You hear about things happening to people – they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way – and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don’t want to die in some unnecessary way.”

— Christopher Walken

50. “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