“Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.” — Christopher Walken Quote

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.

I was so lucky to have those people who took me under their wing and showed me what high-level tennis was like, made me believe it was possible.

I'd rather be good than lucky.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.