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" I've been friends with Elizabeth Banks since 'Wet Hot American Summer.' "
Paul Rudd
Summer
Wet
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" My sister was born a couple years after I was, and I realized that I wasn't getting enough attention, as much attention as I used to before she showed up, and then I learned pretty early on that if I could do a silly dance or make grown-ups laugh, then the attention would come back to me, and I would be accepted. "
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" Sometimes I think I'm funny. But then sometimes I see myself, and I think, 'There's somebody trying to be funny.' "
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" Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris - they're both genius. "
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" I think most marriages, mine included, you're constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it. "
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" My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel. "
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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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" Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms. "
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" Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy. "
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" 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. "
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Look
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" Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. "
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Thing
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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. "
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" I've always loved David Letterman. There was an irreverence to his show that I remember, especially in 'Late Night' - it always seemed so fresh. "
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" I treasure laughs more than anything; they've helped me in life the most. "
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" Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it. "
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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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Same
" I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine. "
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Movies
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" I find many of the people that I've worked with to be incredibly funny. "
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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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" Looking back, I'm really happy with the choices I've made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don't know. But just about every single thing I've ever done I've gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way. "
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Looking
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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. "
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" What's weird is that anybody can write anything, and once it goes online, it's permanent. My very first biography on IMDb, which was written by a manager I had at the time, was not true. "
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" You can make a lot of mistakes with hair because it grows back. "
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" 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'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk. "
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" My wife is very stealth-funny. She'll come out with something when I'm not expecting it, and it'll just kill me. "
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" I hated 'Top Gun.' "
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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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" Who knows what critics are thinking? I know that you make more of a name for yourself, make more of an interesting review, if you're kind of mean-spirited. "
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" 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. "
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High School
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