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" 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

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Father

Mom

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" At my core, I'm a Midwesterner. "

Paul Rudd

Core

" I was never much into knights and sorcery and that kind of thing. It's not because I was into anything cooler. I certainly wasn't. I played with LEGOs. I played with LEGOs way past when most people played with LEGOs. "

" I was always in new schools and had British parents, which was not the norm, and I think there was also... I'm not particularly religious, but I was born Jewish, and I always felt like the outsider because I wasn't Christian or Catholic. "

" I'm not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood. "

Paul Rudd

Stardom

Just

" I'm a big fan of not working. "

" I laugh much more during takes than I do during real life. Maybe because you're not supposed to. I've ruined many takes because I will lose it. "

" All I really wanted to be was a working actor. "

" Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else, and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else. "

Paul Rudd

Everything

Life

" Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. "

" Sometimes I think I'm funny. But then sometimes I see myself, and I think, 'There's somebody trying to be funny.' "

" My parents raised me to treat people the way you would want to be treated and to be polite. Sometimes, when I get nervous or insecure, I might overcompensate and might not be totally true to what I am feeling inside. But I get nervous and maybe too smiley and polite. "

" 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. "

" There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good. "

" I do like the idea that tomorrow I might find out that I'm going to be doing something that is completely unknowable today. I think it forces you to live in the moment in a very good way. "

" I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously. "

" There's a lot of people I would be more than a little overwhelmed by and thrilled to work with. "

Paul Rudd

Work

Little

" Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work. "

" I love attempting to play real people. I like to try and have dramatic moments as well as comedic moments, and my favorite thing is when those two lines are blurred. "

" I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing. "

Paul Rudd

Myself

Doing

" I can talk about sports and stuff, but I have a season pass for 'Antiques Roadshow' on my TiVo. "

" I think there's something kind of good about growing up in a place you know is not the cool place to be. I think it's good for your head. "

" 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. "

" It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way. "

" I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk. "

" Comedy-wise, I think Chris Elliott is one of the funniest people. "

" I am so appreciative I have been able to continue not only doing something I love, but working on movies I've loved. "

" I'd like to do something dramatic or a different kind of role, but I tend not to separate comedy and drama all that much. "

" I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes. "

" Who knows what critics are thinking? I know that you make more of a name for yourself, make more of an interesting review, if you're kind of mean-spirited. "

" I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine. "