Quotes from Chris O'Dowd

I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.

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.

I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

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!

I'm a huge, huge believer in love. Huge!

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.'

I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.

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

I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.

Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.

I come from a musical kind of family.

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!

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

After 'Bridesmaids,' women know who I am.

I don't know if I'd do an action movie because I don't know if I could keep a straight face; honestly, I just think it's so silly. Like, I love watching them but I can't imagine me doing one.

I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29, I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say, when you're 32, you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment, where my age catches up with my appearance.

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.

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.'