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" People have all different kinds of marriages. Whatever works for you. "
Paul Rudd
Whatever
You
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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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" I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing. "
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Doing
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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 hated 'Top Gun.' "
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Top
Hated
Gun
" 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. "
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People
Lot
" 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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Love
I Am
Doing
" Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it. "
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Super
Pride
" I laugh much more during takes than I do during real life. Maybe because you're not supposed to. I've ruined many takes because I will lose it. "
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You
Laugh
Life
" I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical. "
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Ellen
Think
Just
" 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
" My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago. "
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Years
Few
Father
" All I really wanted to be was a working actor. "
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Actor
Really
Wanted
" My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel. "
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Made
Mitzvah
Bar
" I'd like to do something dramatic or a different kind of role, but I tend not to separate comedy and drama all that much. "
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Comedy
Kind
Drama
" 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. "
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Kids
Laugh
Think
" 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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High School
School
Thinking
" I treasure laughs more than anything; they've helped me in life the most. "
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Treasure
More
Life
" '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
" 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. "
Paul Rudd
Way
People
Past
" 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'm not that nice - it's one of those things that reveals itself over time. You could talk to people who know me well; they could give you a laundry list. Except they probably wouldn't because they're petrified. "
Paul Rudd
People
Know
Nice
" 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. "
Paul Rudd
Today
Moment
You
" 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
" 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
" 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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True
Time
Weird
" 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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Right
Like
Time
" It's insane but it's a great insane. "
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Insane
Great
" Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging. "
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Real Life
Kind
Character
" 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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Thought
Comedy
Good
" 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