Chris O'Dowd Quotes
I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process.
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
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When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.
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There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.
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I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.
