All CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Quotes about “Comedy”

“Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.”
“My background is in musical comedy.”
“People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.”
“Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.”
“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.”
“I wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part of the thing. It's like Elizabethan theater. You play the scene, and then you turn - the audience is part of it.”

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