Jim Piddock Quotes

#1. I have immense admiration for the writer/directors and director/actors who just seamlessly do both jobs at the same time.

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#2. I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project or initiated my own things.

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#3. The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them.

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#4. There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction.

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#5. I don't care if I'm funny. I just want people to believe I'm that guy.

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#6. Chris O'Dowd is a very special talent. He's one of those very, very rare actors who can be the clown, or he can be the straight man playing off the clown, in a scene.

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#7. Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.

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#8. When I first did 'Best in Show,' I had never done any improvisation.

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#9. It's so wonderful and creative to go in and tell the wardrobe department what you want to wear and how you want your hair to look. That's great, for an actor. The actors get to do more than they would, normally.

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#10. In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.

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