Top 43 Paul Giamatti Quotes

#1. 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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#2. I don't think film actors need training, really.

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#3. I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

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

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

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#7. Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

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#8. Come on, man ... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.

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#9. Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

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#10. The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.

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#11. I wouldn't say that I'm aggressive in going out to find work and stuff like that. I just sort of, if something comes along, and it's something I like, and they want to hire me, I'll do it. I won't just do anything.

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#12. I'd like to have permanent time off, really. The goal is financial security and permanent time off, basically.

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#13. 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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#14. I married a Jewish lady, and we're raising our son Jewish, and since I'm not Jewish the whole thing is just a mystery to me. I leave it to her, actually, because it's just a great mystery.

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#15. Sometimes, I think I may be more recognizable because I'm character-looking.

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#16. 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.

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#17. I get tired of myself pretty fast.

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#18. 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.

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

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

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#23. I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.

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#24. This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.

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#25. I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.

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#29. I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

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#30. 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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#31. You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

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#32. I don't think I gave a good enough performance to be nominated for it. I thought I gave a fine performance, but those things are supposed to be about giving an extraordinary performance.

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

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#34. I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

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#35. Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.

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#36. My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].

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#37. I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly.

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#38. Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

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#39. I like to work - I probably work too much.

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#40. 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.

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#41. 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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#42. I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem to be able to hit where they're doing the exact right amount of work, not overthinking, not underdoing it. I seem to either overdo it or underdo it.

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#43. I feel like in a lot of ways I've gotten kind of soft as an actor, not doing stage stuff. In terms of being a better actor, it's really important.

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