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" I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical. "
Paul Rudd
Ellen
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" 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. "
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" Puberty hit me pretty hard. All of a sudden, I woke up, and I had really curly hair. "
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" 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. "
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" My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work. "
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" Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy. "
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" I hated 'Top Gun.' "
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" 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. "
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" I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with. "
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" People do still mention 'Clueless' to me. I'm proud and happy that I was in it. "
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" I know a lot about the Titanic. My dad was a Titanic expert. "
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" I think most marriages, mine included, you're constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it. "
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" There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good. "
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" Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adulthood. For me it was. That was when the Earth tilted on its axis, and there was a paradigm shift, and I felt like a different person. "
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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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" There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster. "
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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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