Top 89 Giamatti Quotes
#1. If Kevin James or Paul Giamatti drop weight, I'm done. I don't want to be the last pudge out there.
Patton Oswalt
#2. I probably am. I think Paul Giamatti also said in an interview that I was "f - king crazy." I'm flattered by that. I want to be that guy who's nuts who makes people think.
Thomas Haden Church
#3. If you look at the careers of Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Paul Giamatti, Meryl Streep, none of them shot up in terms of fame or fortune or recognition, they laid a platform of good, solid work and became better and better.
Max Irons
#4. You know what I loved about 'Sideways'? Well, the wine, of course. But it was one of the few movies in which being a writer was realistically depicted. I loved how the Paul Giamatti character tries so ineptly to talk about his book.
Kristan Higgins
#5. We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown with Paul Giamatti.
John Landgraf
#6. I have a particular love of an actor that I did work with, oddly, in 'Donnie Brasco,' who has since become a wonderful talent: Paul Giamatti. I would love to do a whole movie with Paul Giamatti.
Mike Newell
#7. I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
Gary Shteyngart
#8. For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.
Whitey Herzog
#9. No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.
Pete Rose
#10. 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
#11. For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#12. 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.
Paul Giamatti
#13. As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#15. This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.
Paul Giamatti
#16. I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#17. I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.
Paul Giamatti
#18. I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.
Paul Giamatti
#19. A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#21. My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#22. Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#23. Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#24. It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#27. There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#28. 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
#29. 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.
Paul Giamatti
#30. My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].
Paul Giamatti
#31. 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.
Paul Giamatti
#33. As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's capitol, the czar's Winter Palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that is better than all those inconsequential places
Bart Giamatti
#34. The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#35. I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man.
Paul Giamatti
#36. 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
#38. Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.
Paul Giamatti
#39. I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly.
Paul Giamatti
#40. I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.
Paul Giamatti
#41. On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch
engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#42. Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.
Paul Giamatti
#43. I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.
Paul Giamatti
#44. I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.
Paul Giamatti
#45. 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.
Paul Giamatti
#46. You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.
Paul Giamatti
#47. 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
#48. Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#49. I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.
Paul Giamatti
#52. I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#54. The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#55. Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.
Paul Giamatti
#56. Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#57. I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.
Paul Giamatti
#58. I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.
Paul Giamatti
#59. Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#60. Come on, man ... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.
Paul Giamatti
#61. Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#62. I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.
Paul Giamatti
#63. I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.
Paul Giamatti
#64. The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#65. A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#66. I don't think film actors need training, really.
Paul Giamatti
#67. I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male.
Paul Giamatti
#69. Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things - and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#70. We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#76. This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#77. 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.
Paul Giamatti
#78. Sometimes, I think I may be more recognizable because I'm character-looking.
Paul Giamatti
#79. 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.
Paul Giamatti
#80. If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination - through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#81. There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#82. 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.
Paul Giamatti
#83. I'd like to have permanent time off, really. The goal is financial security and permanent time off, basically.
Paul Giamatti
#85. 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.
Paul Giamatti
#86. Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#87. The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.
Paul Giamatti
#88. Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.
Paul Giamatti
#89. I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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