Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilarious. "
Paul Rudd
Fun
Thought
Someone
Related Quotes:
" I always try and hold to that saying, 'I want to work on things I'd want to see.' The vast majority, that's been true. "
Paul Rudd
Work
Always
Saying
" I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with. "
Paul Rudd
Room
Working
Same
" 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. "
Paul Rudd
Mistake
Funny
Car
" I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine. "
Paul Rudd
Movies
Been
Funny
" 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
Go
Concert
Grateful
" I'm not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood. "
Paul Rudd
Stardom
Go
Just
" I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval. "
Paul Rudd
Actor
Sure
Need
" My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago. "
Paul Rudd
Years
Few
Father
" 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. "
Paul Rudd
Think
Born
Christian
" Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me. "
Paul Rudd
Me
Embarrassment
Awkward
" 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. "
Paul Rudd
Trip
Car
Going
" Puberty hit me pretty hard. All of a sudden, I woke up, and I had really curly hair. "
Paul Rudd
Curly
Woke
Me
" A lot of people say, 'What's the worst part about being an actor?' And the worst part is that you're not a musician. "
Paul Rudd
You
People
Lot
" There is something about growing up in the Midwest that gives a different kind of sensibility. But if I'm feeling insecure, the smiles and politeness get upped a notch, and maybe that isn't totally reflective of how I'm feeling on the inside. "
Paul Rudd
Growing
Up
Feeling
" '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. "
Paul Rudd
Way
Never
Independent
" 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. "
Paul Rudd
Weird
Civil War
Early
" 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. "
Paul Rudd
You
Good
Like
" I think there's something kind of good about growing up in a place you know is not the cool place to be. I think it's good for your head. "
Paul Rudd
Growing Up
Cool
Good
" Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else, and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else. "
Paul Rudd
Everything
Me
Life
" I really tried for a while to go with the Adam Ant look. "
Paul Rudd
Ant
Go
Adam
" 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. "
Paul Rudd
Growing Up
High School
School
" 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. "
Paul Rudd
Performance
Look
You
" My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms. "
Paul Rudd
Drama
Comedy
Man
" Sometimes I think I'm funny. But then sometimes I see myself, and I think, 'There's somebody trying to be funny.' "
Paul Rudd
Sometimes
Myself
Funny
" I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes. "
Paul Rudd
Jokes
Much
Because
" 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. "
Paul Rudd
Jeans
Day
Every Day
" 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. "
Paul Rudd
Kids
Laugh
Think
" Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything. "
Paul Rudd
Behind
Everything
Ever
" Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy. "
Paul Rudd
Jokes
Life
My Life
" 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. "
Paul Rudd
Love
Try
Real