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" 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. "

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" I grew up in the Midwest, where people seem to be friendly and nice to one another. There is less stress than in some of the other cities. "

Paul Rudd

Stress

Nice

" It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Fear is what makes comedy funny. "

" My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel. "

" I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with. "

" 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. "

" Alex Smith is - I think he is a winner, and he's a smart quarterback, and I'm a fan of his. "

" Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris - they're both genius. "

" 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. "

" Comedy-wise, I think Chris Elliott is one of the funniest people. "

" 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. "

" Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work. "

" There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male. "

Paul Rudd

Alpha

I Am

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I really tried for a while to go with the Adam Ant look. "

Paul Rudd

Ant

Adam

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine. "

" In eighth grade, I wore a tie to school every day. I didn't own jeans. But it wasn't a granola thing, it was really more of an INXS thing. "

" I think most marriages, mine included, you're constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it. "

" 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. "

" Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life. "

" Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms. "

" 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. "

" Tea has always been a big thing in my life. And I'm not talking about Liptons with lemon or iced tea, or any of that nonsense. Has to be hot PG Tips with milk. "

" 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. "