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"Christopher Walken has admitted that his odd movie characters often lead people to believe he is a &amp;quot;strange&amp;quot; person. Walken, who has starred in The Deer Hunter and Batman Returns among other classic films, told The Chicago Sun Times that he can understand why people are confused about his real-life personality.   &amp;quot;The public perception has a lot to do with knowing me from the movies. It&amp;#039;s understandable,&amp;quot; the Oscar winner explained.  He continued: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve played a lot of strange people and I think it bleeds over. Of course, what is strange? I&amp;#039;ve also played nice, normal guys who are normal until things happen and they change. That&amp;#039;s true of everybody.&amp;quot; Walken also opened up about what led him to become a child actor in the early 1950s.   &amp;quot;TV started in New York, and it was live and family-oriented,&amp;quot; he said of his childhood. &amp;quot;They used a lot of kids and my mother was really into it, so she brought my brothers and me to auditions. We lived in Astoria and it was just a 15-minute train ride into Manhattan. We went across the river to act and my mother encouraged it.&amp;quot; He went on to say: &amp;quot;I never thought about why I did it professionally. I just did it. I was a dancer in musicals and accidentally I got a job as an actor in a play.  &amp;quot;I was asked to do movies. You could say one thing led to another and I still love it. Acting is the only thing I can do. It&amp;#039;s a very good life.&amp;quot; Walken is currently starring with Sam Rockwell and Colin Farrell in Seven Psychopaths, opening on Friday in the US and December 7 in the UK. Watch a trailer for Seven Psychopaths below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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