Christopher Walken credits mother for career

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The 73-year-old actor says that without his mother sending him off to do showbusiness at a young age he'd probably not be a Hollywood star now, reported Contactmusic.


"I don't think I would be an actor if my mother hadn't put me in showbusiness as a kid. I got to about 18 and I thought, 'What are you going to do for the rest of your life?' There was really only one thing I was equipped to do. So that's what I did," he said.

Walken says that he does nothing else with his time other than his job because it is the most interesting part of his life.

"I don't do anything else. I don't have kids. I don't like to travel. I don't have hobbies. I don't play sports - I don't play tennis or golf or anything. Going to work is the most interesting thing I do, so I try to do it as much as I can.

"I've done a lot of jobs I maybe might have been better off doing; I've never ever been very selective. It's not to make a living, it's to have something to do, you know? To go somewhere and to be with people," he said.