Paul Giamatti Quotes
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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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I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.
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I definitely had a top-notch education.
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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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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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The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.
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I have a son who's been raised Jewish because his mom is Jewish. I have a whole different set of holidays to celebrate. Everybody is thrown together with their family in such an intense way, opening all of that stuff again. You're cooped up with everybody and forced to exist with them, and you're forced to try to relate to them in this way that's more open. I guess that just doesn't work for a lot of people.
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I get tired of myself pretty fast.
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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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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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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 definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like. I think I've gotten a little easier on myself, or at least a little more usefully critical of myself. I think before, I just couldn't take looking at myself at all.
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I like playing weird, kind of shady people.
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Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.
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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 felt like I did lots of crappy work in the past. I can't even tell.
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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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You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.
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I like to work - I probably work too much.
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I'd like to have permanent time off, really. The goal is financial security and permanent time off, basically.
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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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I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.
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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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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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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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I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.
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Maybe it's because I have too much pride or self-respect, but I thought, `Why does a guy who has thinning hair and who is overweight have to be a loser or a joke?'
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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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Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.
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I don't think film actors need training, really.
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