Paul Giamatti (Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti) Quotes
It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
-
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
-
It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
-
I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
-
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
-
I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
-
It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
-
I am a just man.
-
I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
-
I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
-
Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
-
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
-
Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'
-
I have been very encouraged by President Obama's call to action on climate change both at his Inauguration and in the State of the Union Address. This is a global imperative. I also welcome President Obama's intention to pursue reductions in nuclear arsenals.
-
The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.
-
In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.
-
I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.
-
They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.
-
I don't know about the totally happy album, though. I don't know if that will ever come from me.
-
Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.
-
Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
-
I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
-
I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.
-
It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time.
