Thomas Haden Church Quotes

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.

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."

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.