Paul Giamatti (Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti) Quotes
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising, or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'
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I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right?
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.
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Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.
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A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.
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I believe that the American audience is not so dumb that they wouldn't be interested in a black story.
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Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
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Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.
