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" I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine. "
Paul Rudd
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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 think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet. "
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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 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. "
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" Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me. "
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" There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made. "
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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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" 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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" There are so many really good comedians, and I would never be as good as they are. It's not my calling. "
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" I used to live next door to a farm, so every day for awhile, I used to walk over and fed the cows, when I was in school. This was weird because I lived in sort of a subdivision, but this one holdout in our neighborhood in Kansas still had a farm. "
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" Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris - they're both genius. "
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" Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life. "
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Life
" I've hitchhiked - it is 'hitchhiked,' and not 'hitchedhike' like 'passersby,' right? - a couple of times, but only in emergency situations, and that's really the time that it's okay to hitchhike. "
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" Comedy-wise, I think Chris Elliott is one of the funniest people. "
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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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" People have all different kinds of marriages. Whatever works for you. "
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" I've been friends with Elizabeth Banks since 'Wet Hot American Summer.' "
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" I do like the idea that tomorrow I might find out that I'm going to be doing something that is completely unknowable today. I think it forces you to live in the moment in a very good way. "
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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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" I think most marriages, mine included, you're constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it. "
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" It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way. "
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" While there are so many great things in my life, you get older, and you have responsibilities. And things happen, like my dad dying - things that are tough to shake off. And there are things I'm still trying to figure out. "
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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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" 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.' "
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