Giovanni Ribisi Quotes

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful

I love talking about Scientology.

Without Scientology, I would be in an alley somewhere looking for dope.

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

I just consider myself a committed actor. If a movie is a success, that's great; I'm happy for that. But I've learned just to concentrate on my job and do the best that I can.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity

What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you find the life and then you add the words.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is

Do what you're doing while you're doing it.

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.