actor. He has appeared in more than 100 movies and television shows, including Joe Dirt
, Annie Hall
, The Deer Hunter
, The Prophecy
trilogy, The Dogs of War
, Sleepy Hollow
, Brainstorm
, The Dead Zone
, A View to a Kill
, At Close Range
, King of New York
, True Romance
, Catch Me If You Can
, Pulp Fiction
, Wedding Crashers
, The Rundown
, Click, and Hairspray
as well as music videos by recording artists such as Madonna
, Journey
, Run DMC and Fatboy Slim
.
Walken's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion in the United States.
I play a lot of those parts, and it's a chicken-and-egg thing. I don't know whether you get scary because you play those parts or did you get those parts because you were scary? But I do believe that there's a very close connection to what's scary and what's funny. So I think if you have the ability to do one, you might have the ability to do the other.
Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.
I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection.
I'm not a big fan of other people's punctuation. When I read a script I've got a sort of automatic eraser. I don't see punctuation or capitals or instructions. I want to decide when the sentence is over. Who's to say when a sentence ends and the other one begins? Sometimes it begins in the middle of the next sentence.
I believe in saving money. I believe in having a house. I believe in keeping things clean. I believe in exercising. Slow and steady is a very good thing for me. It works for me.
I think it's sort of a compliment. Jay Mohr does it in front of me all the time. I've got another friend who does me on his answering machine. When I call him, I hear myself.
I think that my strength as a villain is that the people watching me know that Chris knows that he's in a movie. He's playing. He's having fun. He's going bang, bang. You know, "What's that?"