Welcome to a collection of insightful and inspiring quotes by Paul Walter Hauser, a talented actor known for his remarkable performances in various films and television series. With his distinctive charm and captivating presence on screen, Hauser has garnered attention for his versatility and depth as an actor. Throughout his career, he has portrayed a diverse range of characters, leaving a lasting impression on audiences worldwide.
Paul Walter Hauser’s quotes reflect his passion for his craft, his dedication to his roles, and his unique perspective on life. Whether he’s sharing wisdom gained from his experiences in the entertainment industry or offering words of encouragement to aspiring artists, his words resonate with authenticity and sincerity. Join us as we delve into the wisdom and wit of Paul Walter Hauser through his memorable quotes below.
I watched John Goodman in ‘Barton Fink,’ or Paul Giamatti stealing a scene in ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding,’ and I would think, That’s me in 10 or 12 years. Paul Walter Hauser
I was an extra in a movie called ‘Demoted’ starring Sean Astin and Michael Vartan. The movie was a real atrocity, but it was fun to be paid to be on a film set, and I remember Michael Vartan bought everybody ice cream. Paul Walter Hauser
Yeah, I feel bad for people who think they have to stay in one place – people that feel loyalty to a fault. Paul Walter Hauser
I’ve always loved movies, and enjoyed theater and stand-up comedy and I had a knack for writing and performing. Paul Walter Hauser
I think most people are weirder and more messed up than they would let other people know. Paul Walter Hauser
I felt like ‘Kingdom’ was earning my bachelor’s degree in acting, and then ‘I, Tonya,’ ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ and ‘Richard Jewell’ feel like I’m working my way toward finishing my master’s. Paul Walter Hauser
Oh, boy, I love dogs. I do have a great affection for all things canine. Paul Walter Hauser
If I’m pigeonholed, it’s that people think I play sweet-natured ne’er-do-wells. There are worse fates than that in Hollywood. Paul Walter Hauser
We lost Chris Farley, John Belushi, James Gandolfini, and we need heavier-set people to represent the real world. Paul Walter Hauser
We like to think that because we have a black president that thinks are better and racism doesn’t exist. That’s insane. Paul Walter Hauser
I’ve been turned down by so many things in Hollywood, and the world itself is only getting darker. Paul Walter Hauser
My go to – if I were on a desert island and there was one thing I could eat forever – I am obsessed with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Obsessed. Paul Walter Hauser
The hope is that you’re never pigeonholed, but at the same time I would have been content being a guy in the sitcom who walks in and has crumbs on his chest and goes, ‘Where’s the doughnuts?’ I would have been fine with that. It’s an honor to get paid to make people laugh on a sitcom. Paul Walter Hauser
I think ‘Cruella’ was getting a weird comparison to ‘Joker,’ saying we’re trying to be like that, but we’re not at all. Paul Walter Hauser
It doesn’t matter what you believe – and everyone believes something different – but I think there’s something to be said for fate. Paul Walter Hauser
In my daily life, I’m always struggling to be a better adult, to come to terms with reality. To show up on set for five or six hours and be completely out of touch with reality, or a piece of it, is fun in some sick way that I’m sure a therapist would have a lot of fun deconstructing. Paul Walter Hauser
Blackkklansmen’ is an important film because it puts a mirror up to the past and present. Paul Walter Hauser
Keith Lee is one of the most fascinating, exciting people alive. The guy is the size of Dusty Rhodes, moves like a luchador and has charisma. Paul Walter Hauser
I think the best acting is when you just see the thoughts on a character’s face. Paul Walter Hauser
I think that if you put me and Sebastian Stan as Ric Flair and Arn Anderson in a Four Horsemen movie, and then you cast Ethan Suplee as Ole Anderson. Then you get someone wacked out of their head like Ben Foster or Emile Hirsch to play Tully Blanchard. It could be really cool. Paul Walter Hauser
The recurring theme for me internally is, ‘I was content with what I was doing until something way better just showed up.’ Paul Walter Hauser
The guys I dreamt of being like Phil Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, John Goodman, those are the guys I was aiming to become, and I think they do have a diversified portfolio with what they do. Paul Walter Hauser
I was a movie nerd, through and through. Paul Walter Hauser
A Few Good Men’ and ‘As Good As It Gets’ were the advent of me taking film seriously. Paul Walter Hauser
I love The Great Muta and I grew up on him. Paul Walter Hauser
Yeah, I was always ‘husky.’ Then I got really big in high school. It wasn’t alcohol weight, it was fast food/’I can never die’ weight. I went from 215 to 260 in high school. Then after high school I put on alcohol weight. I was as high as 330, or 333. Paul Walter Hauser
I have been to Hollywood parties where people look at me like ‘are you one of the waiters?’ I have been to functions where people look at me sideways the whole night and it sucks. It hurts. Paul Walter Hauser
I am very flexible and can kick over my head. Paul Walter Hauser
I wanted to do a Chris Farley movie where he’s in rehab for half of the film, and for the other half of the movie, he’s doing his ‘SNL’ stuff and his movies. Paul Walter Hauser
You have to call out injustice and not let tribalism win over. Paul Walter Hauser
I love Indian food. Paul Walter Hauser
I want to try to give everybody else a fair shot and know that you don’t know what that person went through before you met them that day. We don’t know what people are walking out of or dealing with. The hope is that even when people aren’t sure about me, maybe I can try to love them and be sure about them. Paul Walter Hauser
I think my best acting is always when I have one or two people to get really intimate and friendly with off set and bring that relationship on set. Paul Walter Hauser
I always wanted to be that funny young guy who people were like, ‘This is the next Belushi or Farley.’ Paul Walter Hauser
To my knowledge, I don’t believe I’ve taken a role that I didn’t feel I could do when I read the screenplay. Paul Walter Hauser
That is why Chris Jericho is so impressive because he keeps reinventing himself. Paul Walter Hauser
I’ve got to make the movies that I would want to go see. Paul Walter Hauser
My first car, I believe it was a 1986 blue Ford Crown Vic, gifted to me by Bud and Millie Parker out of Hemlock, Michigan. Paul Walter Hauser
The directors I like working with the most are the ones that kind of let you play until you get a boo-boo, and then they tell you how to recalibrate. Paul Walter Hauser
Sometimes it’s like teaching a kid how to swim; sometimes you throw them in the deep end and tell them, ‘Don’t die. Keep moving your arms.’ It’s kind of like that with acting sometimes, where there’s a lot of trust afforded. Paul Walter Hauser
There’s no trophy that will amount to someone trusting you with a sizable portion of their movie, and that’s pretty cool. Paul Walter Hauser
If you watch the movie ‘Queenpins,’ I believe it is the first film in Hollywood to feature AEW in the film. Paul Walter Hauser
Everyone is the dude or woman for the moment they’re in sometimes. And that’s why I believe in fate and believe in God. I think there are things that are out of your circumstances. There are other forces, and you have to either relent and accept, dive in and immerse, or you can fight against it and probably be more aggravated than is necessary. Paul Walter Hauser
People who are stone-cold immovably delusional are probably people that didn’t have great relationships and feel slighted. Paul Walter Hauser
I’ve been very fortunate to have people pull me aside and mentor me. Paul Walter Hauser
I get a call when I’m in Thailand at 3 A.M. from my rep saying, ‘Clint Eastwood wants you to star in his new movie,’ and I said, ‘You guys are hilarious. What, does Jesse Plemons have the measles? What the hell’s going on?’ It was a total shock, but obviously we were all aggressively elated that this was a real thing. Paul Walter Hauser
I think that I can do with the Penguin what Heath Ledger did with the Joker. Paul Walter Hauser
I have to imagine playing Cruella de Vil in a giant Disney movie is probably a little scary. Paul Walter Hauser
Cruella’ is its own movie. Paul Walter Hauser
I, Tonya’ is definitely a calling card for people in the industry to acknowledge who I am or the basis on which I can perform and take characters who could be absurd or fake or unrealistic or obnoxious and try to give some depth and humanity to them. Paul Walter Hauser
That’s what I love about Richard – he has got this big heart. Paul Walter Hauser
I’ll never criticize anyone for disliking something I do. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and a critic is being paid for their opinion. And I like movie critics; 97 percent of the ones I meet are awesome. Paul Walter Hauser
Growing up, I was all about Jim Varney’s character, Ernest P. Worrell, specifically ‘Ernest Goes to Camp.’ I was also obsessed with ‘3 Ninjas,’ ‘Cop and a Half’ and ‘Rookie of the Year.’ Paul Walter Hauser
The reality is that I love WWE and they represent so much of wrestling in its history. But they’ve just made a billion poor decisions. Paul Walter Hauser
We can all be cornered and victimized and bullied by someone who’s trying to take our contextual clues of our personality or appearance, the circumstantial, and trying to make that evidence to fit their narrative. That’s very scary. Paul Walter Hauser
I lost 35 pounds before I did ‘I, Tonya’ and then I had to put it back on for that. Paul Walter Hauser
Films like ‘I, Tonya’ and ‘Richard Jewell’ show a moment in time that then spurned a whole methodology of 24 news cycle, in which it became more important to fill time and to make money, than to tell the truth. Paul Walter Hauser
Sam Rockwell is an occupational hero for me, the same way that Phil Hoffman or Peter Sarsgaard or Michael Shannon are. Paul Walter Hauser
My whole life I have sort of done my own thing. I rarely ask permission; I sometimes ask forgiveness. Paul Walter Hauser
The WWE definitely needs to reinvent itself if it wants to survive. Paul Walter Hauser
I’ve been a fan of accents my whole life. I love trying to parrot or mimic voices that I hear every day, whether it’s a geographical accent or just somebody with a funny voice who sells you your newspaper and your cigarettes. Paul Walter Hauser
My background with AEW is just that, as a fan. I really signed on pretty hard early on. I just had a feeling that that amount of business acumen, and money and talent would just become explosive. Paul Walter Hauser
Funny people come from all over. I think Michigan has dark humor on lock, though. Michigan, to me, is equal parts beautiful and noticeably dark. Saginaw made me dark, hahaha. Paul Walter Hauser
I’m a pretty big Jericholic in that sense that Chris is officially one of the Mount Rushmore greats. He just is and I won’t hear otherwise. He’s done way too much and is way too creative and self-propelled to not be in that conversation. Paul Walter Hauser
Obviously, I’m a fan of Disney and much of what they put out. Paul Walter Hauser
The show understands its tone and characters intimately. ‘Cobra Kai’ has smart people doing silly things – which I can’t get enough of. Paul Walter Hauser
I’ve had a lot of creative license; I improvise quite a bit. There’s a lot I like to do that satiates my creativity, but at the end of the day, I just want to make the guy or gal happy who’s directing the movie. Paul Walter Hauser
Journalism is a fascinating job, you get to study people, you have a great responsibility, and it never grows old. I love the profession, I admire people that do it. But like with any story if there’s an isolated incident of wrongdoing, you have to shed light on it, to not shed light on it would be tribalism. Paul Walter Hauser
If someone likes me, let’s be friends and if you don’t like me, let’s call it good. Paul Walter Hauser
I guaran-damn-tee you, unless God swipes me from the earth because that’s his call anyway, I will be wrestling in a celebrity wrestling match someday, and it will not be forgettable because if I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it, I’m not just going to do it. I’d rather not do it poorly. Paul Walter Hauser
You have to take every opportunity that comes your way and do anything that opens up. Paul Walter Hauser
More than anything, I want to keep working with people of talent like Craig Gillespie, Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood. But there’s also those long-dreamt-of moments: I’d love to host ‘Saturday Night Live,’ I’d love to do a Penguin stand-alone movie at Warner Bros., I’d love to do a Teddy Roosevelt biopic. Paul Walter Hauser