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After 'Bridesmaids,' women know who I am.
Chris O'Dowd
Women
I Am
Know
Am
After
Who
Bridesmaids
Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.
Chris O'Dowd
Writing
Comedy
Thought
Taking
Going
Brief
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
Great
Creative
Creative Process
Definitely
Something
Genesis
Doing
Just
Being
Want
Process
Keep
Buzz
Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'
Chris O'Dowd
Life
Hope
Time
You
Amazing
Pressure
Parents
Lose
Think
I Think
Kind
Brother
I Came
Something
Guy
More
More And More
Through
He
Like
Well
Around
Came
Were
His
Five
Children
Interest
Eldest
Youngest
Loads
By The Time
L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.
Chris O'Dowd
Work
You
Everyone
Those
Feels
Like
Towns
Off
Scotland
North
Just
Oil
Where
Whether
Coast
Connected
Fun
Rig
I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.
Chris O'Dowd
People
Live
Enough
Television
Fact
Voices
Always
Been
Irish
Irish People
Who
Compared
Conscious
Amount
British
What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.
Chris O'Dowd
Great
Natural
Think
I Think
More
Making
Dialogue
Improv
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
Work
Country
Too
Definitely
Possible
Worthy
About
Without
Ireland
Being
Want
Working
Keep
Bring
Harm
Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.
Chris O'Dowd
Great
Technology
Social Media
Innocence
Guess
Feels
Like
Social
Media
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
Great
Power
Live
Panel
Pun
Puns
Super
Could
Like
Go
Off
Forever
Then
Shows
Loads
Louis C. K. makes me laugh, I must say.
Chris O'Dowd
Me
Say
Laugh
Must
Makes
Louis
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
Time
Three
Nothing
Never
Got
Any
Where
Different
Scripts
Working
I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.
Chris O'Dowd
Me
Women
Think
I Think
More
Like
Spoon
Just
Want
Symbol
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
Best
Great
You
Experience
Mind
Uncle
Seven
Kids
Eight
Mean
My soul is still Irish.
Ciaran Hinds
Soul
My Soul
Still
Irish
It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.
Ciaran Hinds
Generation
Made
Tough
Resources
Ireland
Irish
Get
Anymore
Movie
Movies
Whole
Filmmakers
I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years.
Ciaran Hinds
Theatre
Every
Back
Come
Couple
Always
Go
Years
You get to an age when you lose people close to you.
Ciaran Hinds
You
Age
People
Lose
Close
Get
I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.
Ciaran Hinds
Me
Stupid
Never
Like
Reached
Comic
Comics
Up
Ireland
North
Person
Get
Used
Growing
Growing Up
Things
We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.
Ciaran Hinds
Politics
Seen
Dirty
Lot
Ireland
No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'
Ciaran Hinds
Democracy
You
Will
Nation
Claim
Tell
Morals
Therefore
I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.
Ciaran Hinds
You
People
Project
See
Miss
Another
Years
Them
Float
Grief is exhausting.
Ciaran Hinds
Grief
Exhausting
You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
Ciaran Hinds
You
Three
Lost
Own
Christianity
Way
Superstition
Know
Saint
Causes
Go
Pray
Times
Patron
Patron Saint
Anyway
Turn
Means
Why
I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing.
Ciaran Hinds
You
Three
Harry
Harry Potter
Those
Kids
Tell
Exactly
Exactly What
Potter
Know
Doing
Surreal
Being
Room
Whom
Set
I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.
Ciaran Hinds
Myself
Theatre
Every
Back
Saw
TV
Never
Come
Couple
Always
Go
Years
Being
Cop
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