Top 100 O'dowd Quotes
#1. I'm Catholic In My Complications And Buddhist In My Aspirations'
~George O'dowd
Boy George
#2. 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.
Jim Piddock
#3. it's like the British in Ireland in 1916' , says Oisir O'Dowd. 'The repeated the ageless macho mantra, "Force is the only thing these natives understand," so often that they ended up believing it . From that point they were doomed.
David Mitchell
#4. According to Father O'Dowd's description, the seminary catered to both ends of the religious life, training the next crop of young men taking holy orders and providing a retirement home for those closer to discovering if they'd backed the right horse.
David J. Oldman
#6. 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.
Chris O'Dowd
#7. Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.
Chris O'Dowd
#8. 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!
Chris O'Dowd
#9. Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.
Chris O'Dowd
#10. 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.
Chris O'Dowd
#12. 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.
Chris O'Dowd
#13. The C.E.O. of Google doesn't look like a Dick Cheney World Domination sort whom we should worry about as Google ogles our houses, our oceans, our foibles, our movements and our tastes.
Maureen Dowd
#14. Put it this way: singing is not my day job.
Chris O'Dowd
#15. 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.
Chris O'Dowd
#16. I'm a Hawaiian shirt guy. I've made that life decision.
Chris O'Dowd
#17. People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.
Chris O'Dowd
#18. I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.
Chris O'Dowd
#19. 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.
Chris O'Dowd
#21. I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.
Chris O'Dowd
#22. Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.
Chris O'Dowd
#23. A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.
Chris O'Dowd
#24. Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.
Chris O'Dowd
#25. 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.
Chris O'Dowd
#26. 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.
Chris O'Dowd
#27. The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.
Chris O'Dowd
#28. When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.
Chris O'Dowd
#30. I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.
Chris O'Dowd
#31. Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.
Chris O'Dowd
#32. I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.
Chris O'Dowd
#33. I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.
Chris O'Dowd
#34. 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.
Chris O'Dowd
#35. I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.
Chris O'Dowd
#36. I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring.
Chris O'Dowd
#37. I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.
Chris O'Dowd
#38. I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.
Chris O'Dowd
#39. 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.
Chris O'Dowd
#40. I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.
Chris O'Dowd
#41. 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.
Chris O'Dowd
#42. 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.
Chris O'Dowd
#43. Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.
Chris O'Dowd
#44. I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.
Chris O'Dowd
#45. For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.
Chris O'Dowd
#46. Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.
Chris O'Dowd
#47. I like the idea of people having romantic tendencies towards a place they don't know that well. I think it's great. Why not? My dad's view of New York is very similar to Americans' when they talk about Ireland.
Chris O'Dowd
#48. The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.
Chris O'Dowd
#49. Nice recall on the famine lesson, buddy,' I
Chris O'Dowd
#50. What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.
Chris O'Dowd
#51. In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.
Chris O'Dowd
#52. 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.
Chris O'Dowd
#53. I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you go, 'Why does that person need such a large entourage?' And then you realize that every single person there has a role to play.
Lupita Nyong'o
#54. Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?
William Shakespeare
#55. Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral.
Tim O'Brien
#56. I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
Kate O'Mara
#57. The spark lies within us, somewhere deep within! Once you find it, that will illuminate the whole path you travel, all lives upon your way and the very purpose of your life. O beloved, know this world is illuminated by people so!
Preeth Nambiar
#58. The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
Robert Burns
#59. The body consists of three parts: the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain. The borax contains the heart and lungs and the abominable cavity contains the bowels of which there are five: a, e, i, o, u.
Tom Magliozzi
#60. For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.
Flannery O'Connor
#61. PSA98.1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. PSA98.2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
Anonymous
#62. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.
John O'Hara
#63. It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
Jack O'Brien
#64. Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.
Mary Higgins Clark
#66. At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,
You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.
And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,
And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
Rudyard Kipling
#67. Ank froze. The moaning became more stressful and a little bit louder. "I think its coming from the basement."
Without warning, Ank grabs a pool stick and starts banging on the floorboards. "Would you shut up! It four o'clock in the morning and people are trying to get their beauty sleep!
Khalia Hades
#69. A life that was surprisingly full, even though it was simple. Or maybe because it was simple.
Carlene O'Connor
#70. Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances
Diana Wynne Jones
#71. Behind me, Ingrid made a sort of muffled snorting sound. I can only assume she was choking on a breath mint. I shot her a look, hoping she hadn't heard anything, and saw she was wearing a poker face, which could only mean she'd heard everything.
Daniel O'Malley
#73. OUT OF AN INFINITE LOVE, you, O Lord, have made me an heir of your kingdom and joint heir with Christ. O Good Jesus, to whom else shall I go? You have the words of eternal life. I hope, and I believe in you. Lord keep me from despair. Amen. O
Derek A. Olsen
#74. Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
P. J. O'Rourke
#76. I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.
Paul O'Grady
#77. Change without learning is painful. Learning without change is pointless.
Graham O'Connell
#79. All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.
Chris O'Dowd
#80. The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.
Chris O'Dowd
#81. 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.'
Chris O'Dowd
#82. Satan came to a lawyer and told him he would give him fame and fortune in exchange for his soul and the souls of his wife and children. The lawyer hesitated and examined Satan closely.'Okay," he said,"what's the catch?
John O'Dowd
#83. 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.
Chris O'Dowd
#84. There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.
Chris O'Dowd
#85. 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!
Chris O'Dowd
#86. I'd be the last colonel in the world to order you to go to that U.S.O. show and have a good time, but I want every one of you who isn't sick enough to be in a hospital to go to that U.S.O. show right now and have a good time, and that's an order!
Joseph Heller
#87. I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'
Conan O'Brien
#88. If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.
Shaquille O'Neal
#89. I never thought I'd refer to myself as a hot mess.
Chris O'Dowd
#91. Celestials is a soapy space opera. Perhaps a spacey soap opera.
M.C. O'Neill
#92. We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
Ed O'Brien
#93. O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.
Saint Basil
#94. Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.
David O. McKay
#95. But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor.
Timothy O'Grady
#96. A perception is not a story, and no amount of sensitivity can make a story-writer out of you if you just plain don't have a gift for telling a story.
Flannery O'Connor
#97. For false christs and false prophets will arise and o perform signs and wonders, p to lead astray, if possible, q the elect. 23But r be on guard; s I have told you all things beforehand.
Anonymous
#99. Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a great empty drum of flesh
Flannery O'Connor
#100. When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in.
Shaquille O'Neal
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