Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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. "
Paul Giamatti
Long Time
Acting
Time
Related Quotes:
" 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
Show
Cruise
Way
" 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. "
Paul Giamatti
Last
Great
Experiences
" I don't feel like I've ever done anything - even 'Big Momma's House' - that I didn't really have some desire to do. "
Paul Giamatti
Like
House
Feel
" 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. "
Paul Giamatti
Beautiful
Moon
Joy
" In a weird way, I like to find the quirkiness in ordinary things. I like to find what is ordinary in quirky people. "
Paul Giamatti
Find
Like
People
" 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. "
Paul Giamatti
Go
Better
Day
" Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy. "
Paul Giamatti
Whatever
Being
Ends
" I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young. "
Paul Giamatti
Famous
People
School
" With 'Duplicity', I was a little bit like, 'This isn't that hard of a movie.' This isn't like some huge brain trust of a movie. You gotta be a little bit awake to follow the plot, but it's really just a kind of light entertainment. It's like those Cary Grant movies, which are not meant to be anything other than diverting. In a nice way. "
Paul Giamatti
Movies
Brain
Light
" The problem with getting injured when you get older is that it takes longer to recover. "
Paul Giamatti
Older
You
Takes
" I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting. "
Paul Giamatti
Acting
Graduate School
School
" I'm pretty easy to get along with on set, but I'm probably hard on myself. "
Paul Giamatti
Myself
Get
Easy
" You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something. "
Paul Giamatti
Something
Turtle
Me
" I have the mentality of a supporting actor. "
Paul Giamatti
Supporting
Mentality
Actor
" 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. "
Paul Giamatti
Crazy
Lady
Me
" I definitely had a top-notch education. "
Paul Giamatti
Definitely
Education
Had
" 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 Giamatti
Acting
Like
Only
" I don't think film actors need training, really, but I needed any help I could get. "
Paul Giamatti
Need
Help
Think
" 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. "
Paul Giamatti
Villain
Want
Bond
" I remember when I was at the first showing of 'John Dies at the End' at Sundance, and I was talking to some of the people in the standby crowd who were outside and didn't have tickets. They were just waiting in line to see if they could get in. It was this whole gang of die-hard sci-fi wacko people, and they were just fantastic. "
Paul Giamatti
End
Waiting
Talking
" I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something. "
Paul Giamatti
Hero
Something
Going
" 'Capricorn One' just seemed like... wow. That was it, y'know? Nothing was ever going to be better than that movie. "
Paul Giamatti
Like
Nothing
Wow
" 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. "
Paul Giamatti
Money
Work
Amazing
" Sometimes, I think I may be more recognizable because I'm character-looking. "
Paul Giamatti
Think
Because
May
" 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. "
Paul Giamatti
Know
Be Happy
Character
" Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. "
Paul Giamatti
Ivy
Culture
Academic
" Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along. "
Paul Giamatti
Colorful
Along
Fun
" It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think of me as a funny guy. I get much more of people telling me how much I make them laugh, actually. Which is nice. "
Paul Giamatti
Laugh
Nice
Funny
" 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. "
Paul Giamatti
Good
Time
God
" 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 Giamatti
Mind
Be Nice
Feel