Quotes from Paul Walter Hauser

To my knowledge, I don't believe I've taken a role that I didn't feel I could do when I read the screenplay.

My first car, I believe it was a 1986 blue Ford Crown Vic, gifted to me by Bud and Millie Parker out of Hemlock, Michigan.

I've been a fan of accents my whole life. I love trying to parrot or mimic voices that I hear every day, whether it's a geographical accent or just somebody with a funny voice who sells you your newspaper and your cigarettes.

I think that I can do with the Penguin what Heath Ledger did with the Joker.

My whole life I have sort of done my own thing. I rarely ask permission; I sometimes ask forgiveness.

I have been to Hollywood parties where people look at me like 'are you one of the waiters?' I have been to functions where people look at me sideways the whole night and it sucks. It hurts.

The hope is that you're never pigeonholed, but at the same time I would have been content being a guy in the sitcom who walks in and has crumbs on his chest and goes, 'Where's the doughnuts?' I would have been fine with that. It's an honor to get paid to make people laugh on a sitcom.

That's what I love about Richard - he has got this big heart.

The reality is that I love WWE and they represent so much of wrestling in its history. But they've just made a billion poor decisions.

Sam Rockwell is an occupational hero for me, the same way that Phil Hoffman or Peter Sarsgaard or Michael Shannon are.

If I'm pigeonholed, it's that people think I play sweet-natured ne'er-do-wells. There are worse fates than that in Hollywood.

More than anything, I want to keep working with people of talent like Craig Gillespie, Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood. But there's also those long-dreamt-of moments: I'd love to host 'Saturday Night Live,' I'd love to do a Penguin stand-alone movie at Warner Bros., I'd love to do a Teddy Roosevelt biopic.

Sometimes it's like teaching a kid how to swim; sometimes you throw them in the deep end and tell them, 'Don't die. Keep moving your arms.' It's kind of like that with acting sometimes, where there's a lot of trust afforded.

I watched John Goodman in 'Barton Fink,' or Paul Giamatti stealing a scene in 'My Best Friend's Wedding,' and I would think, That's me in 10 or 12 years.

The guys I dreamt of being like Phil Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, John Goodman, those are the guys I was aiming to become, and I think they do have a diversified portfolio with what they do.

I lost 35 pounds before I did 'I, Tonya' and then I had to put it back on for that.

I'll never criticize anyone for disliking something I do. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and a critic is being paid for their opinion. And I like movie critics; 97 percent of the ones I meet are awesome.

I think most people are weirder and more messed up than they would let other people know.

I've been turned down by so many things in Hollywood, and the world itself is only getting darker.

Obviously, I'm a fan of Disney and much of what they put out.

It doesn't matter what you believe - and everyone believes something different - but I think there's something to be said for fate.

Yeah, I feel bad for people who think they have to stay in one place - people that feel loyalty to a fault.

If you watch the movie 'Queenpins,' I believe it is the first film in Hollywood to feature AEW in the film.

Blackkklansmen' is an important film because it puts a mirror up to the past and present.