Chris O'Dowd Quotes
I'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.
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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
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I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.
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In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.
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Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?
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I'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.
