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" You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something. "
Paul Giamatti
Something
Turtle
Me
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" Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid - my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don't know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn't talk to him about it. "
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" 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. "
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" Sometimes, I think I may be more recognizable because I'm character-looking. "
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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 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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" I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all. "
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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 still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway. "
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" I'm pretty easy to get along with on set, but I'm probably hard on myself. "
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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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" There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it. "
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Produce
Something
" I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point. "
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Will
" 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 don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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End
Waiting
Talking
" I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure. "
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You
Play
He
" 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. "
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" The problem with getting injured when you get older is that it takes longer to recover. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Do you know Don Coscarelli? 'Bubba Ho-Tep?' That's one of my favorite movies in the world. And I love the 'Phantasm' movies. "
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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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" Am I an anxious guy? I think I have been called upon as an actor a lot to access emotions like that. But I don't really think I am a big worrier. I don't see myself like that. But I guess other people do. Which is maybe worrying in itself. "
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" I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something. "
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" I get tired of myself pretty fast. "
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" I've never not been proud of the work I was doing; I have nothing I have any shame about. "
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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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