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Paul Giamatti quotes

Ocupation: Actor

Life: b. June 6, 1967

Birthday: June 6

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You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Turtles, Describe Me

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I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.

source: - "The Full Giamatti". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 14, 2007.

Topics: Tired, People, Imagine

I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

Topics: Thinking, People, Accepted

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.

source: - Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 01, 2003.

Topics: Want, Stuff, Going Out

I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

Topics: People, Kind, Shady

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.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Mom, Holiday, Son

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

Topics: Fire, Snipers, Rifles

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.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Thinking, Giving, Good Enough

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.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Sweet, Thinking, Hard Times, Overthinking, Overwork

My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].

Topics: People, May, Definitions, Different Things

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.

Topics: Brother, Children, Trouble, Radar, Youngest Child

I like to work - I probably work too much.

Topics: Too Much

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

Topics: Hero, Mean, Play

I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.

Topics: Careers, Particular

I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.

Topics: Guy, Want, Subway

I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.

source: - "Paul Giamatti: 'I'm clearly not Brad Pitt'" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2009.

Topics: Brad

I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man.

Topics: Wine, Men, Guy

I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Guy, Males, World, Zeta

I get tired of myself pretty fast.

Topics: Tired

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

source: - "Paul Giamatti: My family values". Interview With Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.

Topics: Ivy, League, Academia, Ivy League

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Silly, Acting, Dresses, Playing Dress Up

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

source: - "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.

Topics: Interesting, Actors, Persons, Supporting Actors

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.

source: - Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 05, 2009.

Topics: Nice, Guy, Mind

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

Topics: Talking, Interesting, Mind

I don't think film actors need training, really.

Topics: Thinking, Training, Needs, Film Actors

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.

Topics: Mom, Mother, Yesterday

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.

Topics: Real, Mean, People, Mean People

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.

source: - Source: film.avclub.com

Topics: Acting, Tendencies

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.

Topics: Actors, Financial, Enough, Financial Stability

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.

Topics: Character, Men, Limits

I definitely had a top-notch education.

Topics: Notches, Top Notch

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

source: - Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 5, 2009.

Topics: Film, Critical

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.

source: - "Paul Giamatti: My family values". Interview With Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.

Topics: Dad, Actors, Making Money, My Dad Died, Dad Died

Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.

Topics: Fun, Roles, Stuff, Colorful

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.

Topics: People, Want, Way, Downtrodden

I'd like to have permanent time off, really. The goal is financial security and permanent time off, basically.

source: - "Profile and Interview: Paul Giamatti". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. August 2003.

Topics: Goal, Financial, Permanent, Time Off, Financial Security

I married a Jewish lady, and we're raising our son Jewish, and since I'm not Jewish the whole thing is just a mystery to me. I leave it to her, actually, because it's just a great mystery.

source: - Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Topics: Son, Married, Mystery

I just don't want to be bored. That's the only criteria I have when I choose a role to play. I like it if the script is good and the director seems like he's gonna be good. But if I can find a variety of things to do, which I feel like I manage to do, as far as the actual performing goes and the character, that's huge for me. To be able to feel like I can do a fairly diverse array of things. I've been lucky in that way. 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.

source: - Source: film.avclub.com

Topics: Nice, Character, Bored

Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.

Topics: Plath

Maybe it's because I have too much pride or self-respect, but I thought, `Why does a guy who has thinning hair and who is overweight have to be a loser or a joke?'

Topics: Too Much Pride

I get a fair amount of time between projects, which is great. It takes me awhile to start getting nervous about getting another job again. I don't mind having a lot of down time. I'm pretty lazy. So I really don't mind it. But I'm lucky; I work fairly steadily. I'm lucky that I've managed to do that.

Topics: Down Time

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