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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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" 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. "

Paul Rudd

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" To me, some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise, some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies. "

" 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. "

" Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms. "

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

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

Paul Rudd

Core

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm, uh, not proud to say it - I play fantasy baseball. It's, like, the dorkiest thing ever. "

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

" '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. "

" Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy. "

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

" 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. "

" My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel. "

" 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. "

Paul Rudd

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Parent

" I hated 'Top Gun.' "

" 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. "

Paul Rudd

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" I would say, up until 'Anchorman,' I wasn't any kind of household name or anything, but I wasn't necessarily identified as much with being a comedian. "

Paul Rudd

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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. "

" 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 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. "

" Fear is what makes comedy funny. "

" Alex Smith is - I think he is a winner, and he's a smart quarterback, and I'm a fan of his. "

" I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with. "

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

" 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. "

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