Quotes by Paul Dano

About Paul Dano:

Paul Franklin Dano is an American actor and producer. Dano started his career on Broadway before making his film debut in The Newcomers (2000).
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I like listening to my playlist on the iPod. I don't want radio with commercials.

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I tore my ACL playing basketball.

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I'm not a person who needs to chit-chat between takes by any means.

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I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.

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I'm a private person, but I don't feel afraid to walk out of my door or anything. I get recognised occasionally, but not overwhelmingly so.

Paul Dano

I'm not a big shopper. I'm a pretty simple dresser, and that's not my pleasure go-to thing, looking for clothes.

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Nobody is a perfect actor.

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I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.

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New York is kind of a mythological city in may ways.

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'Looper' was a wonderful script. Rian Johnson is the real deal and a really talented filmmaker.

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One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.'

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It's a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don't exactly know how they're going to turn out.

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People have asked me about playing outsiders. I don't consider myself an outsider. Maybe that's why I'm interested in that. I'm not really sure.

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The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

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The better the acting is, the harder it is to see what the process is.

Paul Dano

I think the idea is to try and understand everything about the characters and where the character is coming from, from their point of view, why they say what they do. And not, 'Oh, but I would never say that. Why does the character say that?' But the...

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When I'm not excited, it makes acting very hard for me.

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There are maybe 100 actors I look up to, but my first two favourite actors were Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson.

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To be called a genius at 17 or 18 years old can sometimes cause arrested development.

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Films can be entertaining without shying away from exploring something. They can be magical and have fantasy, but also can have enough reality that you can be really emotionally invested.

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In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.

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Author Bio

  • NamePaul Dano
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornJune 19, 1984
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor