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'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.