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Antonino Giovanni Ribisi (Italian pronunciation: [antoˈniːno dʒoˈvanni]; born December 17, 1974), known professionally as Giovanni Ribisi, is an American film and television actor.

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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.

Gives, Giving, Grow, Growing Up, Instead, Thinking

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

Breathe, Cinema, Religion, Sound, Want

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

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.

Actor, Add, Important, Improvisation, Says, Use

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.

Character, Challenges, Directors, Challenging, Choose, Deal

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.

Actors, Feels, Order, Understand, Writers

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.

Acting, Artist, Crafts, Injustice

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

Addictive, Become, Believe, Celebrity, Hype, Quality

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.

Big, Film, Films, Help, Helping, Want

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.

Legitimate, Literally, People, Phones, Room, Two

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

Challenges, Want, Criteria, Intellectually, Challenging, Good

I love talking about Scientology.

Love, Scientology, Talking

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

Choose, Path, Vocation, You Choose

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

Cells, Contact, Like, Phone, Phones, Thinking

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.

Acting, Demonstrated, Forever, Grain, Like, Trying

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.

Actor, Father, Guess, Mother, Rubbed, Two

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

Allowed, Career, Careers, Managed, Past, Years

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.

Doe, Improv, People, Thinking, Today

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