Paul Giamatti Quotes

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

You know, your whole life you're concerned about money for this and that. And then you don't have to worry about it, so you worry about other stuff.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

I am not very responsible economically. I have a history working on films for years and years, and by the time I was starting the next film, I was starting from zero again.

I'm always worried about my money for some reason.

What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax.

I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.

After Westlife, I was in a scared place, you know; you've three children, and I worry about providing for them, and I had no guarantees going forward about the future.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

I just felt like I couldn't deal with the everyday responsibilities of life, paying bills and all of that. I'm terrible at all of that. So I knew I had to make enough money to pay someone else to deal with all of that.

I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

I still have a fear about going broke. I always think about it.

I used to be really anxious about money. I got that from my parents. I still am, but for entirely different reasons.

My biggest thing to say is just don't worry about money.

It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills.

There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.

The way I look at it, everything is a trade. You acquire some money, so then you've got no financial burdens, but everyone wants your money and so who can you trust? Or you've got no money and you can trust anyone, but then you've got the worry to pay bills. Which is worse?

It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.

I admit to occasionally sharing the financial hysteria of the rest of the country, the urgency to save more for the family in case you can't write any more.

Since I was 15 I've lived in fear that I'd never work again.