Piddock Quotes

#1. It is a shame when we must regard a people as an enemy. It is a shame and a regret when the two peoples share so much. And it is a shame, a regret, and a tragedy when those peoples meet as individuals and find much to admire.

Sherwood Smith

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

Jim Piddock

#3. 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.

Jim Piddock

#4. 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.

Jim Piddock

#5. 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.

Jim Piddock

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

Jim Piddock

#7. 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

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

Jim Piddock

#9. Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'

Charlie Parker

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

Jim Piddock

#11. Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.

John Ortberg

#12. Ev wasn't the crunchiest chip in the bag.

Kristan Higgins

#13. 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.

Jim Piddock

#14. I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people.

Leo McCarey

#15. 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.

Jim Piddock