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" 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

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Parent

" 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 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. "

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Paul Rudd

Name

Say

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think most marriages, mine included, you're constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it. "

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

" I don't feel like a dork, but I certainly have many moments of nerdism, and I embrace it wholeheartedly. I've always cottoned to that crowd more, anyway. "

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" I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake. "

" 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 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. "

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Stress

Nice

" 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. "

" Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me. "

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Awkward

" People do still mention 'Clueless' to me. I'm proud and happy that I was in it. "

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Mention

Happy

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" Sometimes you read a script, and it's like, 'You'll improv, and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be,' and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really. "

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Good

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