Quotes from Thomas Haden Church

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.

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.

I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit.

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

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

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.

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.

I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.

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

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.

If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.