Paul Giamatti Quotes

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

He [Richard Nixon] was more lacking in self-confidence than any leading politician I have known.

I don't know anybody who doesn't have a lost decade.

I'm such a loser; I don't really go out. None of my friends are really actors, so in that regard, I still have all the same friends and do all the same things.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

When I went through my life, I was like, 'I sit around and play video games all day. Nobody wants to hear about this.'

You can be in the league and still feel like you're not in the league. That was the point I was at when I left Toronto.