Aaron Paul

Actor

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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.

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.

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

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

I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.

I hate musicals. There, I said it.

I'm not a leading man.

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

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 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.

'Breaking Bad' has definitely opened many, many doors for me.

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.

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

My family never owned a home. We leased.

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.

When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'

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

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