Paul Walter Hauser

“My go to - if I were on a desert island and there was one thing I could eat forever - I am obsessed with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Obsessed.”

“People who are stone-cold immovably delusional are probably people that didn't have great relationships and feel slighted.”

“The directors I like working with the most are the ones that kind of let you play until you get a boo-boo, and then they tell you how to recalibrate.”

“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.”

“My background with AEW is just that, as a fan. I really signed on pretty hard early on. I just had a feeling that that amount of business acumen, and money and talent would just become explosive.”

“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 have to imagine playing Cruella de Vil in a giant Disney movie is probably a little scary.”

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

“I get a call when I'm in Thailand at 3 A.M. from my rep saying, 'Clint Eastwood wants you to star in his new movie,' and I said, 'You guys are hilarious. What, does Jesse Plemons have the measles? What the hell's going on?' It was a total shock, but obviously we were all aggressively elated that this was a real thing.”

“I've had a lot of creative license; I improvise quite a bit. There's a lot I like to do that satiates my creativity, but at the end of the day, I just want to make the guy or gal happy who's directing the movie.”

“We lost Chris Farley, John Belushi, James Gandolfini, and we need heavier-set people to represent the real world.”

“I love The Great Muta and I grew up on him.”

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

“I think 'Cruella' was getting a weird comparison to 'Joker,' saying we're trying to be like that, but we're not at all.”

“A Few Good Men' and 'As Good As It Gets' were the advent of me taking film seriously.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”