Paul Giamatti quotes
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“You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : "The Full Giamatti". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 14, 2007.
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“I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.”
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“I wouldn't say that I'm aggressive in going out to find work and stuff like that. I just sort of, if something comes along, and it's something I like, and they want to hire me, I'll do it. I won't just do anything.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 01, 2003.
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“I like playing weird, kind of shady people.”
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“I have a son who's been raised Jewish because his mom is Jewish. I have a whole different set of holidays to celebrate. Everybody is thrown together with their family in such an intense way, opening all of that stuff again. You're cooped up with everybody and forced to exist with them, and you're forced to try to relate to them in this way that's more open. I guess that just doesn't work for a lot of people.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : Source: collider.com
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“I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.”
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“I don't think I gave a good enough performance to be nominated for it. I thought I gave a fine performance, but those things are supposed to be about giving an extraordinary performance.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem to be able to hit where they're doing the exact right amount of work, not overthinking, not underdoing it. I seem to either overdo it or underdo it.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].”
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“I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.”
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“I like to work - I probably work too much.”
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“I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.”
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“I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.”
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“I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.”
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“I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : "Paul Giamatti: 'I'm clearly not Brad Pitt'" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2009.
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“I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man.”
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“I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : "Paul Giamatti: My family values". Interview With Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.
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“Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.
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“I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 05, 2009.
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“I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.”
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“I don't think film actors need training, really.”
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“And I asked my mother 'can I touch the lady in the water? And she said yes I could, but I had to touch Mommy first. And then I asked, 'Mom, can I date the lady in the water?' and she said smiling 'sure, but you gotta date me first.' And yesterday I said 'Mom, may I marry the lady in the water?' and she said o.k., but you'll have to marry me first.”
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“Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.”
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“I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : Source: film.avclub.com
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“As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.”
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“I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.”
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“I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 5, 2009.
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“It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.”
-- Paul GiamattiSource : "Paul Giamatti: My family values". Interview With Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.
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“Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.”
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“I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.”
-- Paul Giamatti
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