Aaron Paul Quotes

I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

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.

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.

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 don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.

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 mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.

There's the really angry drunk, who's just annoying to be around. I prefer the drunk who falls all over the place and is being completely inappropriate. Or the super-loud, happy drunk, which is evidentially what I am.

I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.

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.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

I have had viewers that come up to me, and they're, like, You know, we used to watch ('Breaking Bad') as a family, and once the melted body came falling through the ceiling, my mom was just, like, 'I can't watch this show anymore. This is just way too disturbing for me.' So it's not for everybody.

I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.

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.

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

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.

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.

Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.

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.

I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.

I hate musicals. There, I said it.

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.

My family never owned a home. We leased.

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.

You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.

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.

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.

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'

Love love and cherish life. Also, just eat the cake.

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.

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

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 think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.

When I was six all I could think about was ding-dongs and yo-yos.

I filmed myself drunk, just to see what I'm like. I watched so many funny videos of people drunk on YouTube.

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.

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.

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.

I drive a 1965 Shelby Cobra. I love classic muscle cars.

I don't really seem to gravitate to romantic comedies.

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.

I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.

The best way to watch Breaking Bad is in the fetal position, sobbing.

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.

That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.

I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

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 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.

I love cars, I have two classic cars of my own.

I'm just in love with Burberry. Always have been, always will be.

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'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

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.

There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.

'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.

The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.