126 Quotes by Paul Giamatti

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

I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.