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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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" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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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Find

People

" 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. "

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

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

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

Paul Giamatti

Film

Very

" I really only started doing film in '97. I mean, before then, I just pretty much did theater. "

" 'Rosemary's Baby' is a real New York movie, even though you wouldn't necessarily think of it as one, though I do. "

" 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

Only

" I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting. "

" 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. "

" I have the mentality of a supporting actor. "

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

" I've never not been proud of the work I was doing; I have nothing I have any shame about. "

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

Paul Giamatti

Wine

Big

" 'Capricorn One' just seemed like... wow. That was it, y'know? Nothing was ever going to be better than that movie. "

Paul Giamatti

Nothing

Wow

" 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. "

" 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. "

Paul Giamatti

Life

My Life

" I was a big 'Planet of The Apes' fan, so I was really excited about being in it. I had a really good time. I liked wearing all that stuff, and I liked playing the part. "

" 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. "

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

Paul Giamatti

Something

Turtle

" I'm pretty easy to get along with on set, but I'm probably hard on myself. "

" I get tired of myself pretty fast. "

" I don't think film actors need training, really, but I needed any help I could get. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "