The best Quotes by Paul Giamatti

I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to.

I don't really have any opinion about my performance in 'Big Momma's House.'

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.

I consider myself an atheist. My wife is Jewish. And I'm fine with my son being raised as a Jew. He's learning Hebrew and is really into it. I will talk to my own son about my atheism when the time is right. But there's a great tradition of Jewish atheism, there are no better atheists in the world than the Jews.

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If you was to put me and this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile of Adolf Hitler with a clear line of sight, sir - pack your bags, fellas, war's over.

Private Jackson in Saving Private Ryan

Adolf Hitler

You want to leave? You want to go off and fight the war? All right. All right. I won't stop you. I'll even put in the paperwork. I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.

Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan

He better be worth it. He better go home and cure a disease, or invent a longer-lasting light bulb.

Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan

Actually, the trick to falling asleep is trying to stay awake.

Wade in Saving Private Ryan

Sleeping

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

Saving Private Ryan

War

I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully. Abraham Lincoln.

Saving Private Ryan

Abraham Lincoln

My dear Mrs Ryan: It's with the most profound sense of joy that I write to inform you your son, Private James Ryan, is well and, at this very moment, on his way home from European battlefields. Reports from the front indicate James did his duty in combat with great courage and steadfast dedication, even after he was informed of the tragic loss your family has suffered in this great campaign to rid the world of tyranny and oppresion. I take great pleasure in joining the Secretary of War, the men and women of the U.S. Army, and the citizens of a grateful nation in wishing you good health and many years of happiness with James at your side.

Saving Private Ryan

I’m a good friend but a bad f*cking enemy.

Bobby Axelrod in Billions - Season 4 Episode 4

Being a billionaire, when you walk into a room, it's like being a woman with a perfect set of t*ts.

Bobby Axelrod in Billions - Season 1 Episode 1

Billionaires Boobs

When you do something to put yourself back in charge, remind yourself that you are not less but more powerful for what you’ve come through.

Bobby Axelrod in Billions - Season 3 Episode 8

A boy never really becomes a man until he’s buried his father.

Bobby Axelrod in Billions - Season 2 Episode 8

You don't try to be loyal. You just are, or you're not.

Bobby Axelrod in Billions - Season 1 Episode 4

Hate is nature's most perfect energy source. It's endlessly renewable.

Bobby Axelrod in Billions - Season 2 Episode 3

Get good at letting go, which is a different kind of freedom.

Wendy Rhoades in Billions - Season 3 Episode 2

Your son is the man you made him. Whatever greatness and whatever darkness is in him came from you.

Wendy Rhoades in Billions - Season 3 Episode 3

You don't want to be in politics, you want to be beyond politics.

Wendy Rhoades in Billions - Season 3 Episode 8

The fact that you can't fully understand that doesn't mean he's wrong. It just means you haven't gone beyond your own limits.

Mike Wagner in Billions - Season 3 Episode 9

That reminds me of a prayer I said every night as a kid: 'I pray the Lord my soul to keep, and if I die before I wake, I pray that all my toys should break. So my f*cking brother and sister can't play with 'em.'

Mike Wagner in Billions - Season 3 Episode 11

A good matador doesn't try to kill a fresh bull. You wait until he’s been stuck a few times.

Bobby Axelrod in Billions

The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

Jim Nantz

Connecticut

Canaan? Is your mom religious or just super into towns of Connecticut?

Whitney Chase in The Sex Lives of College Girls - Season 1 Episode 1

Connecticut

It's actually an Algonquin word, "Connecticut". Land of the long tidal river.

Cooper Connelly in Sex/Life - Season 1 Episode 1

Connecticut

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Connecticut - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Connecticut

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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