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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.
— Whitey Herzog
Come on, man ... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.
— Paul Giamatti
My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].
— Paul Giamatti
I'd like to have permanent time off, really. The goal is financial security and permanent time off, basically.
— Paul Giamatti
It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.
— Paul Giamatti
If Kevin James or Paul Giamatti drop weight, I'm done. I don't want to be the last pudge out there.
— Patton Oswalt
Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.
— Paul Giamatti
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.
— Paul Giamatti
No one man is superior to the game.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
I feel like in a lot of ways I've gotten kind of soft as an actor, not doing stage stuff. In terms of being a better actor, it's really important.
— Paul Giamatti
I like playing weird, kind of shady people.
— Paul Giamatti
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.
— Paul Giamatti
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly.
— Paul Giamatti
I like to work - I probably work too much.
— Paul Giamatti
I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man.
— Paul Giamatti
Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.
— Paul Giamatti
I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.
— Paul Giamatti
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.
— Paul Giamatti
All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
The professionals must set a good example.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.
— Paul Giamatti
I get tired of myself pretty fast.
— Paul Giamatti
I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.
— Paul Giamatti
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
I don't think film actors need training, really.
— Paul Giamatti
The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.
— Paul Giamatti
I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male.
— Paul Giamatti
This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.
— Paul Giamatti
Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.
— Paul Giamatti
I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.
— Paul Giamatti
It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.
— Paul Giamatti
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.
— Paul Giamatti
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti