126 Quotes by Paul Giamatti

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

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

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 feel like in a lot of ways I’ve gotten kind of soft as an actor, not doing stage stuff. In terms of being a better actor, it’s really important.

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

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

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

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