Top 119 Quotes by Paul Dano

Certainly, being on stage is a rush.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

I know I am always pumped, as an audience member, to go and see a Western.

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

I guess sometimes fear is a good thing. It's a really good motivator.

I do think the first time you read a script, that gut response is very important, and that probably plants a seed that continues to blossom throughout the whole experience.

I go down to the dive bar around the corner when I go out. I don't go to the showbiz parties.

I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.

Nobody is a perfect actor.

Some projects go as you hope or imagine, and some change or reveal themselves in a different way; it depends.