Quotes By Paul Giamatti

I definitely had a top-notch education.

I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

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

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

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.

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

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

Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

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

I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly.

I don't think film actors need training, really.

Sometimes, I think I may be more recognizable because I'm character-looking.

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

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

I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

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

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.

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

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

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.

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

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.

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.

The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day - that's a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It's a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast.

I get tired of myself pretty fast.

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.