Paul Giamatti Quotes

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.

I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.

When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.

When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him.

I've been at the bottom. I've lost loved ones, I've lost best friends, but that's part of life. I don't hide that.

It makes you tougher. And when you lose a child, no one can say anything that is ever going to impact you.

I had taken a three-and-a-half year break from films because I lost my wife Rina and had to take care of my son.

I used to watch 'Last Comic Standing' with my mom before she passed. So when I got that red envelope, I was extremely emotional.

My mother's death was the defining moment of my life.

I remember I had a psychologist that I worked with in Phoenix tell me one time that the loss of a job and the loss of one's wealth is more devastating to most than losing a loved one or getting divorced. And that really hit me.

That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop.

My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.

After my father passed away in 1989, I fell pretty hard for theater as an undergraduate at the University of Oregon. Before he died, he planted the seed that maybe I should look into performing.

I wrote 'A Boy and His Soul' that talks about how my mother had lupus and my dad dying of a heart condition.

Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures.

Do I miss him? Of course I do. Every day. His death was devastating, he was just 51. But you know, in my stand-up my Dad will always be alive. He's so much part of my act.

I could've easily let the passing of my brother control how I live my life. But I was determined not to let him die in vain and to make a negative into a positive.

My parents and my sister died... very close together, and after that, I lost quite a bit of my sense of humor. Most of it I think has kind of come back, but I know there was a time when I didn't think things were funny anymore. I kind of think they're funny again.

My grandmother has always been my biggest fan, and she was my whole life. The only thing that kept me living after her death is my commitment to training. I took my pain out on the track.

Mayweather was my first professional defeat and I took it really, really hard.

When we lost Steve, it was a real crossroads of deciding if you're just going to curl up in the corner or try to do something even bigger and better.