Paul Giamatti (Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti) Quotes
As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.
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The big thing is that you know what you want.
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It takes a while for executives to understand that every company is a spatial company, fundamentally: where are our assets, where are our customers, where are our sales. But when they get it, they light up and say, 'I want to get the geographic advantage.'
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.
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I've said it from the very beginning: Fighting the best guys in the world doesn't pay as good as the circus. I want to join the circus. I'm trying to get that circus money.
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What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.
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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different things.
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Being mothers, we try to stay home as much as possible and attend to the children.
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As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.
