Paul Giamatti Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 6, 1967

Topics

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When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

Viola Davis

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I have a pretty terrible sweet tooth.

Joe Kennedy III

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Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive.

Jenny Slate

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When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.

Melissa Rosenberg

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Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Max Weber

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I used to do stop motion in my own garage and Claymation and all that stuff. That led to doing backgrounds and matte paintings. I started doing matte paintings professionally back before the computer, sort of painting on glass.

Robert Stromberg

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To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

Amy Heckerling

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The power that you have as a young woman, unless you have great self-esteem, is largely based on how the rest of the world reacts to you. And so it's kind of a superficial confidence that you have, you know?

Amanda de Cadenet

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When I was 18, I moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA.

Sofia Carson

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Elvis was a sweet darling, shy fellow, but he was really boring.

Rita Moreno

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We're like, 'Woah, are we even in that league where we get nominated for a VMA?' And yet our name is right down there among the other nominees. It's very, very strange coming from a country of five and a half million people.

Lukas Forchhammer

PeopleNameDownCountryStrange

I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.

Loni Love

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