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" The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand? "

Pauly Shore

Best

Comedy

Baby

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" When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing. "

" I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know? "

" Everywhere I go, people know who I am. "

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" I fly around with chicks on each arm and have no script. I just talk about what I feel like. But that's why my act works: I'm like this normal guy. "

" When you put yourself out into the world and say, 'Hey, look at me,' you're going to get criticized. "

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" People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves. "

" I don't think any of us would be who we are if our parents weren't who they were. People that are in show business, and their parents are not in show business, their parents probably motivated them to get in show business. "

" I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality. "

" I miss working with great actors, working with great directors. "

" Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. "

" In my 30s, it wasn't cool to like Pauly Shore movies. It was cool to like them when they came out, then it wasn't cool. "

" I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching. "

" 'Entourage' is a staple L.A.-based show, and people say it's pretty real, and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth. "

" Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer. "

" When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did. "

" I'm not used to getting good reviews. "

" The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. "

" Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. I was just inherently funny when I was a kid. "

" I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil. Even at my peak, I never went too over the top. "

" The public was used to a Pauly Shore film coming out every year or two, you understand? So when that went away, the public lost familiarity with me. "

Pauly Shore

Lost

Shore

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" My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers. "

Pauly Shore

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" I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me. "

" I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure. "

Pauly Shore

Now

Comfortable