American - Actor | June 6, 1967 -
I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.
Paul Giamatti
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I don't think film actors need training, really.
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I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure.
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There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.
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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.
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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.
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I was more used to acting onstage, for a long time. I don't know, maybe I was temperamentally more suited to stage stuff. And there are things about the stage that I miss in a lot of ways.
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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.
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'Capricorn One' just seemed like... wow. That was it, y'know? Nothing was ever going to be better than that movie.
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Most conspiracies interest me because of the people who are into them, and the lengths they'll go to expose it or the evidence they think they have. All that stuff. There's just something so beautiful to me about people who sincerely believe we never went to the moon. It gives me so much joy.
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I remember when I was at the first showing of 'John Dies at the End' at Sundance, and I was talking to some of the people in the standby crowd who were outside and didn't have tickets. They were just waiting in line to see if they could get in. It was this whole gang of die-hard sci-fi wacko people, and they were just fantastic.
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I don't really have any opinion about my performance in 'Big Momma's House.'
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