Aaron Paul
Aaron Paul
Aaron Paul Sturtevant, known as Aaron Paul, is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Jesse Pinkman in the AMC series Breaking Bad, for which he won several awards, including the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. This made him the only actor to win the latter category three times,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth27 August 1979
CityEmmett, ID
CountryUnited States of America
I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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.
You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
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.
You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.
What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year for dramatic competition, so you know when you're going to Sundance that you're going to see top-quality projects.
A lot of people get emotional in movies that are cartoons, but not in TV shows.
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.
I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
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.