Thomas Haden Church Quotes
-
I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.
→ -
I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.
→ -
I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.
→ -
Nothing is set up like a comedy bit. I did sitcoms for 10 years. Literally from 1989 to 1999. That's almost all I did. Whenever I got away from television I was like, "Phew, thank God that's over. I am never going back."
→ -
I would just turn into a giant pair of lips. "Oh God! There he is! It's Lip-Man!"
→ -
Sight is about what lies right in front of us. Vision is what lies ahead.
→ -
I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.
→ -
But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.
→ -
I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.
→ -
Villains with a conscience have this sad realization of who they are, and the monster they've become — there's a sense of regret. So at the end of these movies there's a dramatic resonance that really stays with the audience.
→ -
Of course, anybody's who's 26 years old will probably say, "Of course the old guy would say that." But wait until you're 45 or 46 years old. See how you feel about it then.
→ -
But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.
→ -
I've never been married, and I've never been divorced. But I have had some very serious relationships. I was engaged twice. The way that those relationships ended, it was very very heartbreaking.
→ -
I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit.
→ -
I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college. I worked in advertising before I moved to L.A. to pursue acting.
→ -
Kissing's a good thing, man. It's the doorbell of intimacy.
→ -
But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.
→ -
And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.
→ -
But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
→ -
As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.
→ -
When I landed in L.A. in early '89, William Morris decided to take me on to see if I could get any jobs. I was cast in a TV movie called Protected Surf, and made $30,000 in four weeks, and I decided I needed to take acting seriously, because I had never made that much money in a year, much less four weeks. That's when I decided I thought I could make a career out of it.
→ -
Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.
→ -
I probably am. I think Paul Giamatti also said in an interview that I was "f--king crazy." I'm flattered by that. I want to be that guy who's nuts who makes people think.
→ -
I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.
→ -
The Divorce isn't like the Da Vinci Code of TV shows. I'm not saying only a secret society is going to understand divorce. But it is a very specific show. And I don't know if you looked at a lot of the press. There's been some unpleasant reviews. And I'm not faulting those people but, they're really just not getting what we're trying to do. Which is to say, look. That may not be some people's taste. And that's fine.
→ -
If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.
→ -
There's moments that are very personal in The Divorce. There are moments that are sort of unwatchably vulgar or intimate or pathetic. I even had this conversation with my mom. My mom saw the pilot and she was like, "I just thought that some of it seemed nasty." I'm like, "Mom. You're from a whole different generation. And yeah. There's some nastiness that goes on."
→ -
The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.
→ -
I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.
→ -
I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.
→
Related Authors
-
Matt Damon Actor -
Sarah Jessica Parker Actress -
Willem Dafoe Voice Actor -
Scarlett Johansson Actress -
Kirsten Dunst Actress -
Virginia Madsen Actress -
James Franco Actor -
Elle Fanning Actress -
Topher Grace Actor -
Margo Martindale Film actress -
Tobey Maguire Actor -
Alexander Payne Film director -
Sandra Oh Actress -
Kelly Reilly Actress -
Paul Giamatti Actor -
Bryce Dallas Howard Film actress -
Colin Ford Actor -
Maggie Elizabeth Jones Child Actor -
Linda Cardellini Actress -
Steven Weber Actor