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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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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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 wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose 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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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Even when I'm singing on record there's a lot of times when I'll fight for a bit of imperfection. I might not have quite hit the note to the perfect pitch, but there was a soul in there and feeling that,to me, delivers the emotion of that moment. For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not going to be perfect - that's the thrill of it.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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It would be hard to go to your neighbor and say the things people say on the Internet without getting punched out or having your tires slashed.
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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.
