I love characters that are going through turmoil. To be honest, I love characters with conflict. I love characters who are really going through an emotional journey; whether it's a super-dark-crazy journey or a really relatable guy.
Aaron PaulI never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.
Aaron PaulI 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.
Aaron PaulYeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.
Aaron PaulThat's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.
Aaron PaulIn marriage people get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person. If you do want to hurt the other person, then shame on you - you're an asshole. My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.
Aaron PaulWhat's so great about television. You're able to tell a 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.
Aaron PaulWhen I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
Aaron PaulI do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.
Aaron PaulI saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
Aaron PaulFor an actor, for me, I love being able to tap into just heavy emotions. I don't need to be balling in every scene, but I just love to feel different emotions when heading to set. It's a lot of fun to play with.
Aaron PaulWhen I go to set, I try to make it a warm, inviting and happy set. We're all coming to work creating something, hopefully, beautiful together.
Aaron PaulThe first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
Aaron PaulWait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more damaging?
Aaron PaulI have had viewers that come up to me, and they're, like, "You know, we used to watch ('Breaking Bad') as a family, and once the melted body came falling through the ceiling, my mom was just, like, 'I can't watch this show anymore. This is just way too disturbing for me.' So it's not for everybody.
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