Chris O'Dowd Quotes
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In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.
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Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.
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I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.
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I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.
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People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.
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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.
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When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.
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Put it this way: singing is not my day job.
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I come from a musical kind of family.
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Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.
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I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.
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The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.
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I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.
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After 'Bridesmaids,' women know who I am.
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I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.
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I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring.
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Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.
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I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.
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I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!
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I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.
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I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.
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All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.
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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.