Thomas Haden Church Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

The title of the movie is open to interpretation.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.