Top 45 Aaron Paul Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we’ve never fought in our entire relationship.

I have 14 nieces and nephews.

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’m not a leading man.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I got spoiled on ‘Breaking Bad.’ Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is.

‘Breaking Bad’ has definitely opened many, many doors for me.

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.

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

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

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.

I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.

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.

I’m a character actor.

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.

I hate musicals. There, I said it.

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.

I love playing odd roles.

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.

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.

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.

My favourite job hands down – and I think I can speak for everyone involved – was ‘Breaking Bad.’

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.

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.

A lot of people get emotional in movies that are cartoons, but not in TV shows.

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I’m a character actor.

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

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.