#si

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

— Paul Giamatti

#dress-up #like #playing #really #silly

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#consider #i #interesting #interesting person #mentality

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

#cruise #fraught #heroic #i #just

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#brother #brother and sister #child #doing #freedom

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

#attention #big #disingenuous #flattering #goal

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. ↗

— Peter Straub

#eventually #feel #fiction #fiction writers #forms

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

— Paul Giamatti

#business #feels #fit #hole #i

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it. ↗

— Jason Giambi

#i #lead #learned #responsibility #take

Family businesses that have been around for generations are suddenly closing their doors, and while I'm not comparing my situation or my family's situations to theirs, the fact that my father's business, which has been around for 30 years, might not be around, it gives me a perspective that makes me want to fight even harder for a lot of people. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#been #business #businesses #closing #comparing

I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#bank #could #drove #father #funeral