Friday, January 14, 2011

Wisdom With a Bullet

I first noticed Paul Giamatti in Sideways. And noticed him again in John Adams (and other things.) Hell of an actor. And not dumb, either.

[Giamatti] entered Yale as an English major, concentrating on 19th-century American literature. (“Although I had a friend who was taking film, and I remember saying, ‘Wait, you’re going off to see ‘The Searchers’ and I’m sitting here reading ‘Typee’?”) ...

“After graduation, I moved to Seattle thinking I would — oh, I don’t know what in hell I was thinking, ... Get into animation, I guess — although, wow, just put a bullet in your head, there’s a really hard way to make a living. ...

Obviously Paul knows something about the business.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

He was brilliant in "American Splendor."

Floyd Norman said...

Paul is a great actor. I think he'd even make a good animation executive. At least he understands.

stevenem said...

How did he know? It's a good thing he picked an "easy" career like acting.

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