“I need to listen to chill music when I’m driving. It prevents road rage.”
― Aaron Paul
“You feel like you’re really a part of a movement when you’re singing Journey at a karaoke bar.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“My favourite job hands down – and I think I can speak for everyone involved – was ‘Breaking Bad.’”
― Aaron Paul
“I love everyone over at Netflix. They’re all fantastic and an absolute joy to work with.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“I’ve grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.”
― Aaron Paul
“I didn’t come from any money, but even when I was on ‘Big Love’ – people think you’re on a series and you’re making bank.”
― Aaron Paul
“My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it’s where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“I have 14 nieces and nephews.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn’t necessarily do anything, but I’d pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.”
― Aaron Paul
“The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.”
― Aaron Paul
“I mean, I’ve never really had much security, to be honest.”
― Aaron Paul
“I grew up all over Idaho – I was born in Emmett, a very small town.”
― Aaron Paul
“I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I’d done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.”
― Aaron Paul
“I think that for some people faith is good – they have something to draw to.”
― Aaron Paul
“Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.”
― Aaron Paul
“I’m just in love with Burberry. Always have been, always will be.”
― Aaron Paul
“I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn’t protect it or cherish it.”
― Aaron Paul
“I’m a character actor.”
― Aaron Paul
“I love playing odd roles.”
― Aaron Paul
“I’m not a leading man.”
― Aaron Paul
“I don’t understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.”
― Aaron Paul
“People get in fights because they don’t communicate, because you don’t want to hurt the other person.”
― Aaron Paul
“My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we’ve never fought in our entire relationship.”
― Aaron Paul
“It was the roughest day of my career, my final day of shooting on ‘Breaking Bad,’ knowing that I will never be able to kind of zip on that skin again.”
― Aaron Paul
“If everyone were a good person, it’d obviously be a better world.”
― Aaron Paul
“My family never owned a home. We leased.”
― Aaron Paul
“My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.”
― Aaron Paul
“I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“’Breaking Bad’ has definitely opened many, many doors for me.”
― Aaron Paul
“It’s so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way… I mean, I loved ‘Weird,’ I thought that was a really fun character.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“There’s three networks you want to be on: It’s either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.”
― Aaron Paul
“The first album I ever bought with my own money was ‘Ten.’ Every single song reminds me of my childhood.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch ‘DuckTales.’”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“I hate musicals. There, I said it.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“I drive a 1965 Shelby Cobra. I love classic muscle cars.”
― 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.”
― Aaron Paul
“’Breaking Bad’ was such a high plateau.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― 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.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“I’m obsessed with Radiohead. They’re just the greatest band on the planet.”
― Aaron Paul
“I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.”
― Aaron Paul
“I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.”
― Aaron Paul
“I love coming of age stories that have struggle.”
― Aaron Paul
“From the very beginning, I’ve always just wanted to do something I’ve never done before. I’m still just trying to be on that path. It’s all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“I’ve been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they’ve been so supportive of me for many years.”
― Aaron Paul
“It’s very exciting to be able to just work in this business, let alone on stuff you are extremely proud of. So it does make me a little nervous, because ‘Breaking Bad’ is so special. It’s great being part of something so great because people pay attention to you, hopefully because you’re doing good work.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“A lot of people get emotional in movies that are cartoons, but not in TV shows.”
― Aaron Paul
“I got spoiled on ‘Breaking Bad.’ Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is.”
― Aaron Paul
“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.”
― Aaron Paul
“My father’s a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn’t lighting cars on fire; I just wasn’t.”
― Aaron Paul
“I’ve been snowboarding my whole life. My wife’s really good, and I just try to keep up with her.”
― Aaron Paul
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