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Giovanni Ribisi, born on December 17, 1974, in Los Angeles, California, is a talented actor with a strong interest in performing arts from a young age. He has gained widespread recognition and appreciation for his outstanding performances in various film and television projects.

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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.”

Want Should Artist Acting Injustice Crafts Aesthetic Honing

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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.”

Want Sound Breathe Cinema Pretentious

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

Want Challenges Criteria

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“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.”

People Philosophy Certain Belief Parent Millions Media Grew Grew Up Yeah Threat Cult Exposure Pragmatic Belief Systems Scientology

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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.”

Ifs I Can Jobs Actors Committed I've Learned Do The Best

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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.”

Made Choices Position Blame Satisfied Really Happy

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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.”

Ifs Want Firsts Character Stories Challenges Deals Directors Criteria

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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.”

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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.”

Two Film Mother Actors Father Saws Four Week Grandfather My Grandfather Begging

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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.”

Ifs Want Helping Bigs Film Projects Concepts Budgets Help Me More Money

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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.”

Trying Action Lasts Process Acting Forever Fronts Painting Grain Comes And Goes Ephemeral

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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.”

Feels Order Actors Performances

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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.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Sometimes Fall Creative Mouths Negative Balls Rolling Interacting Friction

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

Important Use Actors Add Improvisation

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

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

Thinking Humans Important Phones Contact Cells Old Fashioned Cell Phone

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“I love talking about Scientology.”

Talking Scientology

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“You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'”

Home Modern Messages Concepts Accounts Phones Cells Hopefully Hips Devices Cell Phone Phone Calls Modern Day

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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”

Believe Quality Danger Allowing Hype

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

Path You Choose Vocation

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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”

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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”

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

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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.”

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Born: December 17, 1974
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 26

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