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" I don't really have any opinion about my performance in 'Big Momma's House.' "
Paul Giamatti
Opinion
Big
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" 'Rosemary's Baby' is a real New York movie, even though you wouldn't necessarily think of it as one, though I do. "
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" Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with Budapest and Prague and places like that in my life. "
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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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" The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day - that's a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It's a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast. "
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" If I play a more aggressive, stronger guy, I often go through my day feeling a bit better than when I play somebody who's not. "
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" I really do like a really good science fiction movie and a really good horror movie. Those are the kinds of things I really like. But, I mean, I'm not into sort of like slasher movies. I like a really good science fiction movie, which is hard to do. They don't make many really good ones any more. "
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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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" In a weird way, I like to find the quirkiness in ordinary things. I like to find what is ordinary in quirky people. "
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" Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy. "
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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. "
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" I definitely had a top-notch education. "
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" Most conspiracies interest me because of the people who are into them, and the lengths they'll go to expose it or the evidence they think they have. All that stuff. There's just something so beautiful to me about people who sincerely believe we never went to the moon. It gives me so much joy. "
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" I did a movie called 'American Splendor', based on the comic book writer Harvey Pekar. "
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" Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up. "
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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. "
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" I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt. "
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" I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me. "
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" The 'Planet of the Apes' movies made me wanna - probably unconsciously - be an actor. Seriously. And The Mummy - and 'Hammer horror' movies. 'Fantastic.' I loved stuff like that, and that stuff probably did more than anything to make me wanna do it. "
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" I like to work - I probably work too much. "
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" I was more used to acting onstage, for a long time. I don't know, maybe I was temperamentally more suited to stage stuff. And there are things about the stage that I miss in a lot of ways. "
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" I want to be a villain with steel hands or something. I want to be the crazy, world-domination-obsessed villain. I would love to be a Bond villain. "
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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. "
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" I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting. "
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" It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time. "
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" I worked with J. T. Walsh - it was one of the best experiences I ever had - a fantastic actor and a great guy. I was in the last movie that he did: 'The Negotiator.' He died a couple of months after that. He was great. "
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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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" When I did 'Lady in the Water,' the most exciting thing to me was to get to work with Bob Balaban - I couldn't leave the guy alone. I drove him crazy. He's fantastic and a hilarious guy. "
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" The problem with getting injured when you get older is that it takes longer to recover. "
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