Top 35 Thomas Haden Church Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sight is about what lies right in front of us. Vision is what lies ahead.”

— Thomas Haden Church

2. “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.”

— Thomas Haden Church

3. “Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.”

— Thomas Haden Church

4. “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.”

— Thomas Haden Church

5. “I would just turn into a giant pair of lips. “Oh God! There he is! It’s Lip-Man!””

— Thomas Haden Church

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

— Thomas Haden Church

7. “I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.”

— Thomas Haden Church

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

— Thomas Haden Church

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

— Thomas Haden Church

10. “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.”

— Thomas Haden Church

11. “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.”

— Thomas Haden Church

12. “Kissing’s a good thing, man. It’s the doorbell of intimacy.”

— Thomas Haden Church

13. “But all actors go through the process, it’s hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.”

— Thomas Haden Church

14. “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.”

— Thomas Haden Church

15. “I believe in singularity in relationships because you’ve got to have trust on both sides.”

— Thomas Haden Church

16. “I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.”

— Thomas Haden Church

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

— Thomas Haden Church

18. “I’m not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don’t think I was that way 10 years ago.”

— Thomas Haden Church

19. “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.”

— Thomas Haden Church

20. “If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don’t fear kids or dogs.”

— Thomas Haden Church

21. “I don’t want my hair to be ridiculous. But in Texas I do wear a hat a lot, so I probably have hat-head more than I’m aware of.”

— Thomas Haden Church

22. “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.”

— Thomas Haden Church

23. “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.”

— Thomas Haden Church

24. “I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.”

— Thomas Haden Church

25. “But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.”

— Thomas Haden Church

26. “I love knowing that I’m not better than any other person on the planet.”

— Thomas Haden Church

27. “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.”

— Thomas Haden Church

28. “I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.”

— Thomas Haden Church

29. “But I’m a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.”

— Thomas Haden Church

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

— Thomas Haden Church

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

— Thomas Haden Church

32. “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.”

— Thomas Haden Church

33. “Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I’m feeling pretty humbled these days.”

— Thomas Haden Church

34. “Cows are a lot smarter across the board than bulls.”

— Thomas Haden Church

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

— Thomas Haden Church

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

— Thomas Haden Church