Paul Giamatti (Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti) Quotes

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

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• Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • America
  • Acting

• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Opinion
  • Information
  • Talking

• My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Skills

• I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Up
  • Age
  • Acting

• I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Creative

• I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Acting
  • Times
  • Seriously

• Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Space
  • Acting
  • Places

• I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Watch

• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

  

  Randy Newman
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Method

• Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting
  • Know

• I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Think
  • Career
  • Interesting

• The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Waiting
  • Listening
  • Talking

• I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Acting
  • Mercy

• I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are filled with shame. I think shame is interesting.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Me

• That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Reality

• I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• It's interesting too, that the coach of that Georgia Tech team who led his valiant warriors to those 222 points was none other than John Heisman. Yes, he whom the Heisman trophy is named for, an award that honors that college player who best exemplifies excellence and integrity.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Interesting
  • Team
  • College

• People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Freedom
  • Mom
  • Acting

• I'm no dancer. I got rhythm, I can dance if I need to, but I'm not Chris Brown. He's an amazing dancer. If I'm not going to be amazing at it, I'm not gon' do it. I'm gonna do what works for me, and you're going to feel it 'cause it's me.

  

  Trey Songz
  • Amazing
  • Dance

• I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye.

  

  Sherri Shepherd
  • I Love
  • Lunch
  • New Yorkers

• Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Art

• 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
  • Interesting
  • Acting
  • Talking