Top 100 Paul Dano Quotes

#1. I approach every role from scratch.

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#2. My first thought about acting, growing up here in New York, was theater, and I feel like I need to force myself to go get my ass kicked in a rehearsal room and do one of those plays at some point.

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#3. I don't like to spend a lot of money on haircuts: I'll sometimes grow my hair and get an acting job and get them to cut it for free. I think for a lady, though, it's okay to spend a lot on a haircut.

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#4. George C. Scott, man, was a powerful dude.

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#5. The hardest thing about working with your partner is that the work starts to become first.

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#6. I don't really know what kind of actor I am.

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#7. Robert De Niro's sort of like a surfer: he doesn't really force anything. So if he catches the wave, or something spills out - to watch a guy be a force at what he does. He has a good worth ethic.

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#8. My favorite color is blue, and my secret favorite color is pink.

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#9. I like listening to my playlist on the iPod. I don't want radio with commercials.

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#10. One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.'

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#11. Have I seen any plays that I've been in? Uh, you know, might be a little weird.

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#12. Your director is your main support - actors don't generally give each other advice on set, not in my experience.

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#13. For me, playing a really bad character is about figuring out what brought the person to where we need him.

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#14. I've been fortunate to work with several actors and directors who I look up to, and learned from each of them.

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#15. When I'm not excited, it makes acting very hard for me.

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#16. I don't like tight pants on guys.

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#17. As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.

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#18. I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

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#19. I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what the future would be like. I would never go near a fortune teller, even though it's probably not even real. I just don't wanna know.

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#20. I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there's some really nice people who work there and good food. They change their menu a lot, so maybe that's what keeps me coming back. I never know what I'm going to get.

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#21. I'd love to do a really broad comedy at some point.

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#22. I know I am always pumped, as an audience member, to go and see a Western.

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#23. The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

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#24. I think you sometimes have to go hit rock bottom before you can grow and rebuild as a person.

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#25. I go down to the dive bar around the corner when I go out. I don't go to the showbiz parties.

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#26. Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing.

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#27. The only exercise I get is playing sports because I hate the gym. I try to learn to love it.

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#28. I tore my ACL playing basketball.

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#29. As people, no matter what we are doing, your whole body is living and breathing.

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#30. There's that thing that if you want to have any kind of lasting love, I think you have to love the whole person and not just the parts of them that you choose.

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#31. It's hard to talk about acting because I don't think it's quite as explicit as a lot of people might think. And that's probably the best thing about it.

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#32. Sometimes it's summer camp on location. So it's nice to have a little New York community of people you love.

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#33. I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.

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#34. To be called a genius at 17 or 18 years old can sometimes cause arrested development.

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#35. The less acting you have to do, the better, I think.

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#36. I love cereal. I eat several bowls a day, mostly a few late at night.

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#37. New York is kind of a mythological city in may ways.

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#38. I went to tranny bars and kind of got used to being around that and then getting dressed up.

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#39. I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.

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#40. One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

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#41. The only constant I can find is hard work.

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#42. I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.

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#43. Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

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#44. When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a Broadway stage at 11 years old? It's so far in the distance now.

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#45. I think control is a two-way street; sometimes people want to control things to keep them safe if they are afraid of life.

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#46. The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.

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#47. I guess sometimes fear is a good thing. It's a really good motivator.

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#48. You look at the part in '12 Years A Slave,' you finish that script - I mean, it's a powerful story. You go, 'Man, I have to play a bad character in this.' And then you go, 'Well, do I want to play a bad character and contribute to a good story?'

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#49. I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC.

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#50. I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.

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#51. I'm not a big shopper. I'm a pretty simple dresser, and that's not my pleasure go-to thing, looking for clothes.

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#52. As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available?

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#53. To be running away from explosions with Harrison Ford, you know, that's pretty great.

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#54. Of course I think it's a movie for everybody [Insane Farting Corpse], but that's probably just because it's a movie for me.

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#55. I do think the first time you read a script, that gut response is very important, and that probably plants a seed that continues to blossom throughout the whole experience.

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#56. The whole being-in-a-room interview thing, at a junket or a film festival, is very inhuman. You meet the person, have five or 10 minutes to talk, and it's not like a conversation.

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#57. Certainly, being on stage is a rush.

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#58. I really don't want to go to work every day convincing myself of what I'm saying. I want the material to make me a better actor; then I try to return the favor to the material.

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#59. The better the acting is, the harder it is to see what the process is.

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#60. I always ask for more takes. I like doing takes, so I'll do as many as I can.

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#61. I always have an adjustment period where I'm so happy to be home, but then my sense of purpose is totally gone.

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#62. Nobody is a perfect actor.

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#63. There are maybe 100 actors I look up to, but my first two favourite actors were Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson.

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#64. I volunteered at a homeless shelter in preparation for 'Being Flynn,' and when I'm walking along the Bowery, that's the first thing that comes to mind. That's a nice memory.

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#65. Michael Caine is so happy. Happy and healthy. I think he enjoys life. I think he's 82 now, and I have no clue if I'll be working at that age.

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#66. I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

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#67. Being actors is a strange job.

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#68. In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But one of the guilty pleasures of acting is that sometimes you get to let a little something out that you don't in life because it's not right.

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#69. I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.

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#70. I like the idea of finding parts that I know I can do but I don't totally understand them right away.

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#71. With somebody like Harrison Ford, they're so commanding and confident, and you know, he does have a certain power or charisma, and those are things that are sort of ineffable.

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#72. I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.

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#73. I think carrying your gut, or your instincts, through all the learning, is one of the most important things. You learn to prepare for a part in different ways, you learn to experiment, what you do for the character - you try working in different ways.

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#74. I don't have any tattoos.

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#75. People think memorizing lines is hard, when that's the last thing you worry about. You get that done, and then you've got to worry about the internal stuff, which is the challenging part.

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#76. I've definitely been in ruts, and I think having some kind of perseverance is important.

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#77. Theater is hard.

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#78. I don't know that praise is always a good thing.

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#79. 'Little Miss Sunshine' was really important to me.

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#80. I mean, to feel in good hands as an actor ... it's the best feeling.

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#81. I'm a private person, but I don't feel afraid to walk out of my door or anything. I get recognised occasionally, but not overwhelmingly so.

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#82. I feel like, once you're doing a job, you shouldn't talk about it.

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#83. I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance.

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#84. I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.

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#85. Spring and fall in New York are the best seasons here to get out and about. I like the little park in Dumbo between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridge. I like Prospect Park.

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#86. It's a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don't exactly know how they're going to turn out.

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#87. I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.

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#88. At the heart of drama is conflict.

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#89. I'm not a person who needs to chit-chat between takes by any means.

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#90. This is so lame to say in a magazine, but I just grabbed some pink wallpaper. I find it to be a very relaxing color.

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#91. The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.

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#92. I'm a sucker for period pieces. There is always great opportunity for research and to delude yourself into feeling like you are in a different time and place.

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#93. I'm really excited to share the movie [Swiss Army Man] with people, so I'm glad that people are seeing it. And I want them to, because I think it's a really fun movie to experience sitting next to people. It makes it funnier. It makes it more comfortable. It makes it sweeter.

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#94. I don't want my learning curve to be stunted by just all of a sudden doing work all the time and not being careful about the work that I'm doing.

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#95. I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it.

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#96. You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

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#97. Sometimes I think your intellect can get in your way as an actor or an artist. When you come from a world of improv and comedy, you're able to let it flicker and fall out.

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#98. In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

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#99. I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually.

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#100. Reading the script [Insane Farting Corpse], by page two or three, I felt that way. I thought, I'm in. It was so beautiful and insane and funny and I wanted to see it happen.

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