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.

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!

I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.

I'm a Hawaiian shirt guy. I've made that life decision.

I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring.

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.

I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

After 'Bridesmaids,' women know who I am.

I guess I'm an atheist. But I would say I have very good relationships with the priests that I grew up with. I was an altar boy growing up, and the men of God in my life have always been really lovely, intelligent, well-informed, kind men. So I feel very loyal to their beliefs as much as anything else.

Success is absolutely intoxicating. I've seen people behave in ways that seem very far from how they would behave normally.

I mean, I'm an uncle of seven or eight, and I don't mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine and I think of myself as the little sugar.

I grew up in a house of forthright women.

Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.

I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.

I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.

I definitely enjoy an audience, when I'm performing. As I get older I'm kind of less comfortable at being demonstrative. I always fancied myself as a raconteur, but that never really worked out.

I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29, I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say, when you're 32, you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment, where my age catches up with my appearance.

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.

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.

I come from a musical kind of family.

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

For most of my life, I've been, ‘Hey, I'm not into it, but I respect your right to believe whatever you want'. But as time goes on, weirdly, I'm growing less liberal. I'm more like, 'No, religion is ruining the world, you need to stop!’

Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.

L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.

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.

I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.

Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'

I'm a huge, huge believer in love. Huge!

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.

I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.

In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

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.

I don’t know if I’d do an action movie because I don’t know if I could keep a straight face honestly, I just think it’s so silly. Like I love watching them but I can’t imagine me doing one. Actually, you know what I’ve done, just for fun because I didn’t think there was any way that I could be in a superhero movie, so I’ve done a scene in the new “Thor” movie, just for that. I just do like one scene, which was quite fun.

I never thought I'd refer to myself as a hot mess.

I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.

Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.