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The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior. — Ann Dowd

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money. — Chris O'Dowd

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence. — Chris O'Dowd

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat. — Chris O'Dowd

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight. — Maureen Dowd

I grew up in a house of forthright women. — Chris O'Dowd

My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad. — Maureen Dowd

I'm a huge, huge believer in love. Huge! — Chris O'Dowd

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new. — Chris O'Dowd

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. — Maureen Dowd

I never thought I'd refer to myself as a hot mess. — Chris O'Dowd

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages. — Chris O'Dowd

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play. — Chris O'Dowd

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down. — Maureen Dowd

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural. — Chris O'Dowd

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history. — Maureen Dowd

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

Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys. — Maureen Dowd

This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves crime, it involves justice. — Matthew Dowd

Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for. — Maureen Dowd

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile. — Maureen Dowd

A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other. — Maureen Dowd

I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring. — Chris O'Dowd

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

I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men. — Maureen Dowd

When you go into a fight saying you're probably going to lose, you're probably going to lose. — Maureen Dowd

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers. — Chris O'Dowd

What goes up, must come down ... Mustn't it? — Siobhan Dowd

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit. — Maureen Dowd

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing - or one person - at a time. — Maureen Dowd

Has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love? — Siobhan Dowd

American women are evolving backward
becoming more focused on their looks than ever. Feminism has been defeated by narcissism. — Maureen Dowd

It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them. — Maureen Dowd

We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest. — Maureen Dowd

I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat. — Chris O'Dowd

Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world. — Chris O'Dowd

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists. — Chris O'Dowd

Put it this way: singing is not my day job. — Chris O'Dowd

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

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

There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define. — Thomas B. Dowd III

The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky. — Chris O'Dowd

The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional. — Maureen Dowd

I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole. — Chris O'Dowd

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

Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention. — Maureen Dowd

Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do. — Maureen Dowd

Facts are God's native tongue. — Michael Dowd

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

Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world. — Chris O'Dowd

Personally, I've decided to stop evolving. — Maureen Dowd

TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult. — Ann Dowd

Celebrity is the religion of our time. — Maureen Dowd

The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing. — Chris O'Dowd

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military. — Maureen Dowd

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him. — Maureen Dowd

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world. — Chris O'Dowd

In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set. — Chris O'Dowd

Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful. — Maureen Dowd

The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper. — Maureen Dowd

I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me. — Chris O'Dowd

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch. — Alan Green

Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt. — Maureen Dowd

Nice recall on the famine lesson, buddy,' I — Chris O'Dowd

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans. — Maureen Dowd

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

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors. — Chris O'Dowd

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. — Maureen Dowd

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. — Maureen Dowd

Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people. — Maureen Dowd

Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day. — Maureen Dowd

I come from a musical kind of family. — Chris O'Dowd

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it. — Chris O'Dowd

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

I'm Catholic In My Complications And Buddhist In My Aspirations'

~George O'dowd — Boy George

Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there. — Ann Dowd

I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to. — Ann Dowd

Are women necessary? Not with Ava around — Maureen Dowd

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both. — Maureen Dowd

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

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write. — Maureen Dowd

Women fear that men will have their way and then slither away. Men fear that women will come back and boil their bunnies. — Maureen Dowd

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen. — Maureen Dowd

President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things. — Maureen Dowd

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. — Maureen Dowd

The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done. — Ann Dowd

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

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation. — Siobhan Dowd

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. — Maureen Dowd

After 'Bridesmaids,' women know who I am. — Chris O'Dowd

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last. — Maureen Dowd

If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply. — Maureen Dowd

I'm a Hawaiian shirt guy. I've made that life decision. — Chris O'Dowd

In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
~Elwood P. Dowd — Mary Chase

Louis C. K. makes me laugh, I must say. — Chris O'Dowd

God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything! — Michael Dowd

I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid. — Chris O'Dowd

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

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful. — Chris O'Dowd