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I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Paul Giamatti

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

Paul Giamatti

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

Paul Giamatti

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

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

Paul Giamatti

Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid - my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don't know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn't talk to him about it.

Paul Giamatti

The white male is one of the easiest things to be. There's always a job; there's always something for you to do.

Paul Giamatti

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.

Paul Giamatti

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

Paul Giamatti

I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.

Paul Giamatti

I don't feel like I've ever done anything - even 'Big Momma's House' - that I didn't really have some desire to do.

Paul Giamatti

I like to work - I probably work too much.

Paul Giamatti

I would probably choose supporting roles if I had to make a choice. It's actually a really hard thing to say. It's all on a role-by-role basis, ultimately. I shouldn't be so quick to say that. I feel like you're given greater license to be colorful and eccentric in supporting roles, and that's interesting to me.

Paul Giamatti

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

Paul Giamatti

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

Paul Giamatti

Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with Budapest and Prague and places like that in my life.

Paul Giamatti

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

Paul Giamatti

With 'Duplicity', I was a little bit like, 'This isn't that hard of a movie.' This isn't like some huge brain trust of a movie. You gotta be a little bit awake to follow the plot, but it's really just a kind of light entertainment. It's like those Cary Grant movies, which are not meant to be anything other than diverting. In a nice way.

Paul Giamatti

I get tired of myself pretty fast.

Paul Giamatti

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

Paul Giamatti

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

Paul Giamatti

I definitely had a top-notch education.

Paul Giamatti

I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

Paul Giamatti

I don't think film actors need training, really, but I needed any help I could get.

Paul Giamatti

I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

Paul Giamatti

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.

Paul Giamatti

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.

Paul Giamatti

Honestly, I never wanted to be more than a good supporting actor. Really, I enjoy it.

Paul Giamatti

If I play a more aggressive, stronger guy, I often go through my day feeling a bit better than when I play somebody who's not.

Paul Giamatti

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

Paul Giamatti

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

Paul Giamatti

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

Paul Giamatti

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

Paul Giamatti

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.

Paul Giamatti

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.

Paul Giamatti

I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure.

Paul Giamatti