“I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You ...” — Christopher Walken Quote

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

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.

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

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.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

What happens in Washington, we feel on the streets of Boston. But here's what matters more: what we do in Boston can change this country.