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" Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything. "
Paul Rudd
Behind
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Ever
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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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" I don't have an agenda where I do a comedy and say, 'I have to do a drama next,' or 'I am looking for an action movie now.' "
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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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" I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes. "
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" I can, and do, walk the street. No one bothers me or anything, because most people wouldn't know who I am. "
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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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" I find many of the people that I've worked with to be incredibly funny. "
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" I hated 'Top Gun.' "
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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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" There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good. "
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Idea
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" I think most marriages, mine included, you're constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it. "
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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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" I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval. "
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Need
" I've been friends with Elizabeth Banks since 'Wet Hot American Summer.' "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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Head
Try
Sides
" 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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" 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 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. "
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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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" 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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