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" Fear is what makes comedy funny. "
Paul Rudd
Fear
Funny
Makes
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" 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. "
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" I am so appreciative I have been able to continue not only doing something I love, but working on movies I've loved. "
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" If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilarious. "
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" I hated 'Top Gun.' "
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" I'm, uh, not proud to say it - I play fantasy baseball. It's, like, the dorkiest thing ever. "
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" 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. "
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School
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" I can, and do, walk the street. No one bothers me or anything, because most people wouldn't know who I am. "
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Street
" People do still mention 'Clueless' to me. I'm proud and happy that I was in it. "
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Me
Happy
" Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency. "
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Think
" Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it. "
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Super
Pride
" It's insane but it's a great insane. "
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Insane
Great
" It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way. "
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Play
You
Way
" 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. "
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People
You
Treat
" To try and sustain a performance is always a challenge. Anything you work on, to try and be real and show up and not look as if I'm playing pat to anything is always work. "
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Performance
Look
You
" 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. "
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Think
Father
Mom
" I love straight guys that seem gay. I'm a little like that. "
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Like
Gay
Seem
" I treasure laughs more than anything; they've helped me in life the most. "
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Treasure
More
Life
" In eighth grade, I wore a tie to school every day. I didn't own jeans. But it wasn't a granola thing, it was really more of an INXS thing. "
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Jeans
Day
Every Day
" 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. "
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Understand
Character
Think
" I've been friends with Elizabeth Banks since 'Wet Hot American Summer.' "
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Summer
Wet
Friends
" There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good. "
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Living
Idea
Good
" I used to love, love Steve Martin. I still do... I would get these albums, and I would just listen to them all the time. I would stand in my room and pretend that I was delivering his comedy routine... And I don't know if that planted any kind of seed, but I wasn't raised going to the theatre. "
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Time
Theatre
Know
" I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously. "
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Situations
Funny
Find
" My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago. "
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Years
Few
Father
" 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. "
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Kind
Drama
" Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life. "
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Jokes
Falling
Life
" There's a lot of people I would be more than a little overwhelmed by and thrilled to work with. "
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More
Little
" 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. "
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Thinking
Name
Yourself
" There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made. "
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Reading
Great