Quotes from Paul Walter Hauser

I've been very fortunate to have people pull me aside and mentor me.

Films like 'I, Tonya' and 'Richard Jewell' show a moment in time that then spurned a whole methodology of 24 news cycle, in which it became more important to fill time and to make money, than to tell the truth.

Funny people come from all over. I think Michigan has dark humor on lock, though. Michigan, to me, is equal parts beautiful and noticeably dark. Saginaw made me dark, hahaha.

I think my best acting is always when I have one or two people to get really intimate and friendly with off set and bring that relationship on set.

Growing up, I was all about Jim Varney's character, Ernest P. Worrell, specifically 'Ernest Goes to Camp.' I was also obsessed with '3 Ninjas,' 'Cop and a Half' and 'Rookie of the Year.'

Keith Lee is one of the most fascinating, exciting people alive. The guy is the size of Dusty Rhodes, moves like a luchador and has charisma.

The show understands its tone and characters intimately. 'Cobra Kai' has smart people doing silly things - which I can't get enough of.

I think that if you put me and Sebastian Stan as Ric Flair and Arn Anderson in a Four Horsemen movie, and then you cast Ethan Suplee as Ole Anderson. Then you get someone wacked out of their head like Ben Foster or Emile Hirsch to play Tully Blanchard. It could be really cool.

I was a movie nerd, through and through.

I, Tonya' is definitely a calling card for people in the industry to acknowledge who I am or the basis on which I can perform and take characters who could be absurd or fake or unrealistic or obnoxious and try to give some depth and humanity to them.

I'm a pretty big Jericholic in that sense that Chris is officially one of the Mount Rushmore greats. He just is and I won't hear otherwise. He's done way too much and is way too creative and self-propelled to not be in that conversation.

You have to take every opportunity that comes your way and do anything that opens up.

Yeah, I was always 'husky.' Then I got really big in high school. It wasn't alcohol weight, it was fast food/'I can never die' weight. I went from 215 to 260 in high school. Then after high school I put on alcohol weight. I was as high as 330, or 333.

We can all be cornered and victimized and bullied by someone who's trying to take our contextual clues of our personality or appearance, the circumstantial, and trying to make that evidence to fit their narrative. That's very scary.

Oh, boy, I love dogs. I do have a great affection for all things canine.

I want to try to give everybody else a fair shot and know that you don't know what that person went through before you met them that day. We don't know what people are walking out of or dealing with. The hope is that even when people aren't sure about me, maybe I can try to love them and be sure about them.