Giovanni Ribisi Quotes

• I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Philosophy, Media, People

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• I don't think that many people today, understand the nature of what an improv does for an actor in a specific setting. What an improv does for an actor is help him find the life; it's the life that an actor's after.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Thinking, People, Doe

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'm definitely one of those people that what comes into my head falls out of my mouth. That's a way for me to be even more creative, to sort of get the ball rolling and start parlaying off of somebody and interacting. That charge or that friction sometimes - if it's positive or negative - is inspiring, and it gets people to be I think creative, maybe.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Fall, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Acting is ephemeral. It's not like making a painting that lasts forever. You're doing something, and the very action which comes and goes, is being demonstrated in front of you. Within that process, you're trying to go against the grain.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Forever, Trying, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

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• 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.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Writing, Waste, Wasting Time

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Order, Actors, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm really happy with where I am, the movies in my life. Not satisfied, necessarily. But I won't put it on somebody else, blame anybody else for my position in the business. It's the choices I have made.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Choices, Blame, Made

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Giovanni Ribisi

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

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Path, Vocation, You Choose

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• 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.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Mother, Father, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love talking about Scientology.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Talking, Scientology

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

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Dope, Would Be, Alleys

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

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Challenges, Want, Criteria

  Roundtable Interview, www.ign.com. September 15, 2004.

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• 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.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Important, Add, Use

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Believe, Hype, Quality

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• For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Artist, Acting, Crafts

  "Ribisi Rising" by Sandra Schulman, dishmag.com.

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• It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped me have perspective on things. The attraction that Hollywood can have, I feel like I'm over that. Instead I just concentrate on acting.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Growing Up, Thinking, Giving

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• If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Character, Challenges, Directors

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• 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.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Phones, Two, People

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

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Sound, Cinema, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• 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.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Jobs, Actors, I've Learned

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Want, Helping, Film

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• I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Jobs, Focus, Tabloids

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• 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

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Past, Careers, Years

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