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" 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. "

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" 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

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Family

Place

" Anybody that's going on a road trip and doesn't really want to get into a myriad of snacks is probably no one you want to get in the car with. "

" People have all different kinds of marriages. Whatever works for you. "

" It's nice to be in anything that anybody sees or likes. If it's something that has lasted, it's great. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The truth is, there are so many terrific places in New York because it's the greatest city in the world, and there are so many fascinating places to see that, frankly, it's humbling. "

" 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. "

" Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life. "

" I love straight guys that seem gay. I'm a little like that. "

Paul Rudd

Gay

Seem

" Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency. "

" Growing up, I was certainly drawn to comedy, but my goal was just to be as well-rounded an actor as possible. I really liked Daniel Day-Lewis, and I thought, 'Oh, he's a good guy to try and emulate.' "

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

" 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. "

" Tea has always been a big thing in my life. And I'm not talking about Liptons with lemon or iced tea, or any of that nonsense. Has to be hot PG Tips with milk. "

" 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

" 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

Concert

Grateful

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

Paul Rudd

Core

" Growing up, if I had been given any advice - bad or good - I probably wouldn't have been able to act on it regardless. I wasn't shy, but I'd get nervous. I got a little more confident later in high school when I realized I could get girls to pay attention to me by making them laugh. "

" I've been friends with Elizabeth Banks since 'Wet Hot American Summer.' "

" 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. "

" If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilarious. "

" 'Anchorman' was never supposed to be a popular, like, hit movie. That movie was a cheap movie - it felt like we were working on a weird independent comedy in a way. "

" I find many of the people that I've worked with to be incredibly funny. "

" I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much. "

" While there are so many great things in my life, you get older, and you have responsibilities. And things happen, like my dad dying - things that are tough to shake off. And there are things I'm still trying to figure out. "

" 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. "

" Fear is what makes comedy funny. "

" I used to ask my mom to try and shave my head on the sides to give me a receding hairline because Adam Ant had one. "

" My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago. "