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" 'Ant-Man' was a genre, I guess, that I hadn't really tackled before. "
Paul Rudd
Genre
Really
Tackled
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" I love straight guys that seem gay. I'm a little like that. "
Paul Rudd
Like
Gay
Seem
" I've been friends with Elizabeth Banks since 'Wet Hot American Summer.' "
Paul Rudd
Summer
Wet
Friends
" My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago. "
Paul Rudd
Years
Few
Father
" Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. "
Paul Rudd
Thing
Thrilling
Theater
" It's insane but it's a great insane. "
Paul Rudd
Insane
Great
" I'm a big fan of not working. "
Paul Rudd
Big
Fan
Big Fan
" Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms. "
Paul Rudd
Early
My Own
See
" When I was in my early twenties, I used to grow all sorts of very weird beards. All of them awful in retrospect. I had Civil War beards for a while, then Mennonite beards. "
Paul Rudd
Weird
Civil War
Early
" I don't have an agenda where I do a comedy and say, 'I have to do a drama next,' or 'I am looking for an action movie now.' "
Paul Rudd
Drama
Comedy
Action
" To me, some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise, some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies. "
Paul Rudd
Movies
Dramatic
Most
" Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work. "
Paul Rudd
Kind
She
Why
" I grew up in the Midwest, where people seem to be friendly and nice to one another. There is less stress than in some of the other cities. "
Paul Rudd
Stress
Nice
Up
" I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior. "
Paul Rudd
Understand
Character
Think
" I grew up in a lot of different places, mostly in Kansas, I really started thinking seriously about acting in high school; I just did it better than most of the other activities in school. "
Paul Rudd
High School
School
Thinking
" I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with. "
Paul Rudd
Room
Working
Same
" I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine. "
Paul Rudd
Movies
Been
Funny
" Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency. "
Paul Rudd
Perfect
Because
Think
" People do still mention 'Clueless' to me. I'm proud and happy that I was in it. "
Paul Rudd
Mention
Me
Happy
" Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me. "
Paul Rudd
Me
Embarrassment
Awkward
" I'm not that nice - it's one of those things that reveals itself over time. You could talk to people who know me well; they could give you a laundry list. Except they probably wouldn't because they're petrified. "
Paul Rudd
People
Know
Nice
" Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging. "
Paul Rudd
Real Life
Kind
Character
" I can talk about sports and stuff, but I have a season pass for 'Antiques Roadshow' on my TiVo. "
Paul Rudd
I Can
Antiques
Season
" My sister was born a couple years after I was, and I realized that I wasn't getting enough attention, as much attention as I used to before she showed up, and then I learned pretty early on that if I could do a silly dance or make grown-ups laugh, then the attention would come back to me, and I would be accepted. "
Paul Rudd
Laugh
Early
Sister
" I wasn't one of those kids who was like, 'I want to be an actor.' It wasn't in my wheelhouse at all. I wasn't from a family that did this or in a place where people did this. "
Paul Rudd
Want
Family
Place
" People have all different kinds of marriages. Whatever works for you. "
Paul Rudd
Whatever
You
Kinds
" I went to college and studied theater; I went to a theater conservatory. I live in New York because I wanted to do plays and still do plays. "
Paul Rudd
College
Live
New
" I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes. "
Paul Rudd
Jokes
Much
Because
" As a kid, I know that most of my parents' friends were because my mom made friends with them, and my dad went along. I know a lot of dads who do that. I think it just starts to happen with guys. In the case of my father, he was probably just too busy reading books about Titanic. "
Paul Rudd
Think
Father
Mom
" Alex Smith is - I think he is a winner, and he's a smart quarterback, and I'm a fan of his. "
Paul Rudd
Quarterback
Fan
Winner
" For a while, I tried to masquerade as somewhat of a hippie because I was under the impression that was the kind of guy girls would like. I was pretty unsuccessful because I liked the idea of camping more than actually camping. I did go to a Grateful Dead concert, but I was pretty bored. "
Paul Rudd
Go
Concert
Grateful