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 went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
  • Acting
  • Year
  • Loved

• 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

• You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Time
  • Great
  • Acting

• 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

• In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

  

  Burton Richter
  • Interesting
  • Technology

• Obviously, after 'The Matrix,' it was a case of, 'OK, I did that. What's next?' I mean, it's always like that, but more so this time. How do I change it up? How do I keep it interesting for myself?

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Interesting

• Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

  

  Luis Fortuno
  • People
  • American
  • Freedom

• What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • People
  • You
  • Content

• I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Played

• 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