Thomas Haden Church Quotations

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie.

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.

The title of the movie is open to interpretation.

I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.

Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

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.

It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.

I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.

To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out.

But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.

Cary and I are working together on another movie, Charlotte's Web.

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.

I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

Certainly anybody who auditions for the role is an actor, so everybody brings whatever backstory they have, their experiences in LA. Good or bad.

Just being plugged into the industry and seeing how fast and loose people play it, in terms of romance, it's almost like a parallel universe.

Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.

I made a comfortable living for several years.

But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all.

If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.

I don't want my hair to be ridiculous. But in Texas I do wear a hat a lot, so I probably have hat-head more than I'm aware of.

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.

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.

I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.

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 would just turn into a giant pair of lips. "Oh God! There he is! It's Lip-Man!"

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

Kissing's a good thing, man. It's the doorbell of intimacy.

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.

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.

One that always stings is "Grow up." And it stings most when you have the suspicion that it is justified, that you have just done somethingchildish and you got nailed for it. It's probably been said to me a few times.

Cows are a lot smarter across the board than bulls.

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.

Sight is about what lies right in front of us. Vision is what lies ahead.

The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.

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.

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.