A biography for Thomas Haden Churchhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.”
“But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.”
“I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.”
“The title of the movie is open to interpretation.”
“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.”
“To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out.”
“I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.”
“I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.”
“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.”
“And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.”
“I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.”
“I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.”
“But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.”
“When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.”
“It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting.”
“I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.”
“He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.”
“But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.”
“As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.”