Paul Giamatti Quotes

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

I think about the work I've landed, and I think to myself, 'If I never land a job again, I could still die happy.'

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

I've hit a point where my big luxury is getting to work on the things I want to work on. That's my hobby. It's being able to do a movie like 'Chef,' where you don't get paid, where you get paid scale, but you get to do exactly the movie you want to do. To me, that's worth more to me than whatever money I would have gotten paid.

I think 'work' is anything I'm doing with intention and purpose. There is absolutely no negative connotation to the word 'work' for me - I feel lucky that I get to wake up every day and spend my days doing things I believe in.

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.

I don't believe in strategies. I love what I am doing; that's the main thing.

The money is nice, but I am not in this game for the money.

There are decisions I could have made, moves I could have made, that would have got me seen more. I do it because I enjoy the craft and the challenge of trying to make something that doesn't exist come alive, and that's what I'm in it for.

When you have a job you know you'd do for free, it takes a lot of the pressure away to be successful at it. So if it's doing theater in New York or teaching acting, I'm down for all of it.

I think the biggest reward is not physical. I rather obtain things spiritually. I mean, it's so cool to be acknowledged by the public, but that's not my goal. That's not why I make music. I would do it anyway, if there was no reward.

Success is very enjoyable in any field. But for me, success is not in terms of financial gains.

As long as you are enjoying your wrestling and enjoying what you are doing, that's all that really matters.

Best way to measure your passion is simply asking would you do it for free? If money is your motivation, then it's not really your passion.

Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.