Paulo Costanzo famous quotes

This doesn't seem like one of those 'truth will set you free' situations.
-- Paulo Costanzo

#Truth #Reality #Situation

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.
-- Paulo Costanzo

#Musical #Loser #Theater

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.
-- Paulo Costanzo

#Hippie #Parent #Study

I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.
-- Paulo Costanzo

#Kids #Thinking #Hands

I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.
-- Paulo Costanzo

#New York #People #East

A sitcom, you rehearse for four days of the week and then you shoot it all in one night in front of a studio audience. It's like a play every week, you just shoot it over a seven or eight-day period with a single camera. I enjoy this format of show much more. I'm a feature guy. I like making movies. So the four camera thing I didn't love it that much. I found myself slightly out of my element.
-- Paulo Costanzo

#Night #Guy #Week

There are certain scripts that are just written in a way where, for whatever reason, I read it, and instantly that inspiration hit me and it was just kind of electric, and I didn't have to think about it. It just kind of went from there.
-- Paulo Costanzo

#Inspiration #Thinking #Kind

In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in West Side Story when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid and I just like forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved West Side Story so much and I somehow managed to get the role. I had an afro and glasses, and the guy who cast me goes, "All right, the first thing to go is the afro and the next thing, I'm going to buy you contacts and we're going to get you..." So he kind of molded me into what it had to - that's still probably the hardest role I've every played in anything, the most taxing role.
-- Paulo Costanzo

#School #Kids #Guy

The only thing I would advise young actors to do is prepare for the amount of adversity that you're going to come in contact with by choosing to be an actor because before you actually "made it" or get the skills, people are all not going to take you seriously, and many people will try to discourage you from it. Don't take any of their advice. Do it, and do it and do it. Remember the compliments. Forget the insults.
-- Paulo Costanzo

#Adversity #People #Advice

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.

I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.