Paul Giamatti Quotes

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• You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

  Paul Giamatti

  Turtles, Describe Me

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

  Paul Giamatti

  Thinking, People, Accepted

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• I'd like to have permanent time off, really. The goal is financial security and permanent time off, basically.

  Paul Giamatti

  Goal, Financial, Permanent

  "Profile and Interview: Paul Giamatti". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. August 2003.

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

  Paul Giamatti

  Interesting, Actors, Persons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.

  Paul Giamatti

  Tired, People, Imagine

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.

  Paul Giamatti

  Brad

  "Paul Giamatti: 'I'm clearly not Brad Pitt'" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2009.

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• 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.

  Paul Giamatti

  Thinking, Acting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

  Paul Giamatti

  People, Kind, Shady

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• I wouldn't say that I'm aggressive in going out to find work and stuff like that. I just sort of, if something comes along, and it's something I like, and they want to hire me, I'll do it. I won't just do anything.

  Paul Giamatti

  Going Out, Want, Stuff

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 01, 2003.

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• I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

  Paul Giamatti

  Fire, Rifles, Snipers

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• I don't think I gave a good enough performance to be nominated for it. I thought I gave a fine performance, but those things are supposed to be about giving an extraordinary performance.

  Paul Giamatti

  Thinking, Giving, Good Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I married a Jewish lady, and we're raising our son Jewish, and since I'm not Jewish the whole thing is just a mystery to me. I leave it to her, actually, because it's just a great mystery.

  Paul Giamatti

  Son, Married, Mystery

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I get tired of myself pretty fast.

  Paul Giamatti

  Tired

  "The Full Giamatti". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 14, 2007.

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• I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.

  Paul Giamatti

  Guy, Want, Subway

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• I have a son who's been raised Jewish because his mom is Jewish. I have a whole different set of holidays to celebrate. Everybody is thrown together with their family in such an intense way, opening all of that stuff again. You're cooped up with everybody and forced to exist with them, and you're forced to try to relate to them in this way that's more open. I guess that just doesn't work for a lot of people.

  Paul Giamatti

  Mom, Holiday, Son

  Source: collider.com

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

  Paul Giamatti

  Silly, Playing Dress Up, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male.

  Paul Giamatti

  Guy, Males, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to.

  Paul Giamatti

  Nice, Guy, Mind

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 05, 2009.

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• I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.

  Paul Giamatti

  Careers, Particular

  "The Full Giamatti". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 14, 2007.

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• 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.

  Paul Giamatti

  Mom, Mother, Yesterday

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• I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem to be able to hit where they're doing the exact right amount of work, not overthinking, not underdoing it. I seem to either overdo it or underdo it.

  Paul Giamatti

  Sweet, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man.

  Paul Giamatti

  Wine, Men, Guy

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• 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.

  Paul Giamatti

  Character, Men, Different

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

  Paul Giamatti

  Men, Killing Yourself, Plath

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• Maybe it's because I have too much pride or self-respect, but I thought, `Why does a guy who has thinning hair and who is overweight have to be a loser or a joke?'

  Paul Giamatti

  Pride, Hair, Self

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