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" My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago. "
Paul Rudd
Years
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Father
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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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" It's nice to be in anything that anybody sees or likes. If it's something that has lasted, it's great. "
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" Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy. "
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" I'm, uh, not proud to say it - I play fantasy baseball. It's, like, the dorkiest thing ever. "
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" The truth is, there are so many terrific places in New York because it's the greatest city in the world, and there are so many fascinating places to see that, frankly, it's humbling. "
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" All I really wanted to be was a working actor. "
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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. "
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" Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it. "
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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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" Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything. "
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" I think most marriages, mine included, you're constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" '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. "
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" I grew up in a lot of different places, mostly in Kansas, I really started thinking seriously about acting in high school; I just did it better than most of the other activities in school. "
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" I am so appreciative I have been able to continue not only doing something I love, but working on movies I've loved. "
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" 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. "
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" I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet. "
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" Comedy-wise, I think Chris Elliott is one of the funniest people. "
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" I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That's why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of 'Madden.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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