Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Aaron Paul

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Aaron Paul.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Aaron Paul

Aaron Paul Sturtevant is an American actor best known for portraying Jesse Pinkman in the AMC series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), for which he won several awards, including the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2014), Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film (2013), and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. This made him one of only two actors to win the latter category three times since its separation into comedy and drama. He has also won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television three times, more than any other actor in that category. He reprised the role of Jesse Pinkman six years after the end of the series in the 2019 Netflix film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, earning further critical acclaim. He is set to reprise the role again during the final season of the spin-off series Better Call Saul in 2022.

I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra. — © Aaron Paul
I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.
I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.
I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.
I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
I've got to be honest and say that, growing up, I wasn't a big sports guy, but I love the camaraderie. I just love people getting together, fighting for a team and getting super-emotional about it.
I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.
I drive a 1965 Shelby Cobra. I love classic muscle cars.
I'm just in love with Burberry. Always have been, always will be.
Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.
I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.
That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor. — © Aaron Paul
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year for dramatic competition, so you know when you're going to Sundance that you're going to see top-quality projects.
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.
My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.
My family never owned a home. We leased.
I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
I got spoiled on 'Breaking Bad.' Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is.
I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.
I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
I rode a shark once. I wouldn't recommend it. It was fun, but I thought I was going to get eaten the entire time! Nothing against sharks. I love sharks. I just don't think we are meant to ride them.
It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.
My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
My dad didn't want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he's a retired Southern Baptist minister.
I'm not a leading man.
I hate musicals. There, I said it.
It's all about trying to be very careful about what your next role or what your next move is gonna be. It's all about trying to have longevity in this business and make smart choices.
You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar. — © Aaron Paul
You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.
You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.
I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.
You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.
I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.
My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person. — © Aaron Paul
People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.
I love everyone over at Netflix. They're all fantastic and an absolute joy to work with.
I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.
I love playing odd roles.
If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
I have 14 nieces and nephews.
I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.
I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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