Paul Giamatti (Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti) Quotes

I don't think film actors need training, really, but I needed any help I could get.

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• I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everything
  • White
  • Certainty

• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Work
  • Music
  • Real

• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Believe
  • History
  • Struggle

• I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Problem

• I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Same

• Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Down

• Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Poetry

• I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Thoughts
  • Own

• There's alcohol in plant and tree.It must be Nature's planThat there should be in fair degreeSome alcohol in Man.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Plant

• Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • Good

• There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

  

  Marie Osmond
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• All I want is the defining moment.

  

  The Boz

• Biden's about as disciplined as a puppy, OK?

  

  Jesse Watters
  • Puppy

• Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

  

  Audrey Meadows
  • People
  • Work

• Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • People
  • Important
  • Women

• Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

  

  Lee Strobel

• I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

  

  John Frusciante
  • Music

• The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Book
  • Help
  • Wonder

• You always feel bad when you see in the newspaper or on television that someone's suffered a tragedy. You might make a donation, but too often we're so wrapped up in our own situations we don't do everything we could to help out. This has certainly changed the way I'll look at these things in the future.

  

  John Whiting
  • Bad
  • Help
  • Changed

• I don't think film actors need training, really, but I needed any help I could get.

  

  Paul Giamatti
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