Paul Giamatti Quotes

I want to be a villain with steel hands or something. I want to be the crazy, world-domination-obsessed villain. I would love to be a Bond villain.

Paul Giamatti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

Joe Jonas

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I think as a filmmaker and as a director, you shortchange yourself if you inhibit the ability of your actor to bring their own personal experiences to the characters.

Joe Carnahan

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I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

Jerry Pournelle

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Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Jean Kerr

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I've got more creative control when I do music.

Method Man

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My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

Amber Tamblyn

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Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

Stephen Hawking

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I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it.

Mike Nichols

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I'm not interested in passion and love for their own sake - without the struggle of life, they're just fluff.

Mira Nair

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Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying.

Dita Von Teese

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Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

Donald Rumsfeld

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A lot of 'Blackheart' was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But that melancholy has a hopefulness - in every Poe story, there is always a moral at the end.

Dawn Richard

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