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 Read Quote
Rosemary’s Baby’ is a real New York movie, even though you wouldn’t necessarily think of it as one, though I do. Paul Giamatti Read Quote
I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to. Paul Giamatti Read Quote
My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from college. My mother died just before ‘Sideways’ came out. She knew I was an actor, but she never saw me become successful. Paul Giamatti Read Quote
I really do like a really good science fiction movie and a really good horror movie. Those are the kinds of things I really like. But, I mean, I’m not into sort of like slasher movies. I like a really good science fiction movie, which is hard to do. They don’t make many really good ones any more. Paul Giamatti Read Quote
I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting. Paul Giamatti Read Quote
I worked with J. T. Walsh – it was one of the best experiences I ever had – a fantastic actor and a great guy. I was in the last movie that he did: ‘The Negotiator.’ He died a couple of months after that. He was great. Paul Giamatti Read Quote
When I did ‘Lady in the Water,’ the most exciting thing to me was to get to work with Bob Balaban – I couldn’t leave the guy alone. I drove him crazy. He’s fantastic and a hilarious guy. Paul Giamatti Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I was never the class clown or put on shows at home. I never thought of acting as something I could do with my life. When I was a kid, I used to run around wrapped in toilet paper so I could be the Mummy. But that wasn’t a sign that I was dreaming of being an actor. I was just an odd child. Paul Giamatti Read Quote
