Quotes By Paul Giamatti

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

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

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

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

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

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

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

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

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.

I get tired of myself pretty fast.

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.

This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.

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

I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

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

I definitely had a top-notch education.

I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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