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
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.
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.
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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.
You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
I drive a 1965 Shelby Cobra. I love classic muscle cars.
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.
I'm just in love with Burberry. Always have been, always will be.