Chris O'Dowd Quotes

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.

After 'Bridesmaids,' women know who I am.

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

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!

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

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.

The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.

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.

Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

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'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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

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

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.

Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into the country, that's no harm.

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

I come from a musical kind of family.

I grew up in a house of forthright women.

When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.

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

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

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