Quotes by Paul Giamatti

Paul Giamatti

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Academia

Ivy

League

Acting can be a really silly thing. It’s like playing dress-up.

Acting

Playing Dress Up

Silly

And I asked my mother ‘can I touch the lady in the water? And she said yes I could, but I had to touch Mommy first. And then I asked, ‘Mom, can I date the lady in the water?’ and she said smiling ‘sure, but you gotta date me first.’ And yesterday I said ‘Mom, may I marry the lady in the water?’ and she said o.k., but you’ll have to marry me first.

Mom

Mother

Yesterday

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.

Actors

Enough

Financial

Come on, man…. Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can’t kill yourself before you’re even published.

Killing Yourself

Men

Plath

I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there’s a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.

Character

Different

Men

I definitely had a top-notch education.

Notches

Top Notch

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don’t like.

Acting

Tendencies

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don’t like. I think I’ve gotten a little easier on myself, or at least a little more usefully critical of myself. I think before, I just couldn’t take looking at myself at all.

Acting

Thinking

I don’t consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

Actors

Interesting

Persons

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Academia

Accepted

Acting

Actors

Adjustment

Bored

Brad

Broads

Brother

Careers

Character

Children

Comedy

Critical

Dad

Describe Me

Different

Enough

Film

Financial

Fire

Fun

Giving

Goal

Going Out

Good Enough

Guy

Hair

Hard Times

Hero

Holiday

Imagine

Important

Interesting

Ivy

Jobs

Killing Yourself

Kind

Lazy

League

Making Money

Males

Married

May

Mean

Men

Mind

Mom

Mother

Mystery

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Quotes by Paul Giamatti

Paul Giamatti

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It’s like playing dress-up.

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.

Come on, man…. Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can’t kill yourself before you’re even published.

I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there’s a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.

I definitely had a top-notch education.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don’t like.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don’t like. I think I’ve gotten a little easier on myself, or at least a little more usefully critical of myself. I think before, I just couldn’t take looking at myself at all.

I don’t consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

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