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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Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
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When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise and that life on earth would have to evolve in order to live beneath the sea once more or perish. We came from water and now, with the help of stem cell technology and cloning, we must go back to it to survive.When the waters rise, humanity will go back to the place from whence it came.Make no mistake, this is not sci-fi, this is evolution.
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.
