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" There's a lot of people I would be more than a little overwhelmed by and thrilled to work with. "
Paul Rudd
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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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" I really tried for a while to go with the Adam Ant look. "
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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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" My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago. "
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" Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work. "
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" I treasure laughs more than anything; they've helped me in life the most. "
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" I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk. "
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" I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously. "
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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 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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" Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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Civil War
Early
" I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval. "
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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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Love
Try
Real
" I don't feel like a dork, but I certainly have many moments of nerdism, and I embrace it wholeheartedly. I've always cottoned to that crowd more, anyway. "
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Embrace
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" My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms. "
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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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Just
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Come
" There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good. "
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Living
Idea
Good
" 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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You
Star
Show
" It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way. "
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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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" Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy. "
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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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School
" Anybody that's going on a road trip and doesn't really want to get into a myriad of snacks is probably no one you want to get in the car with. "
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" 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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" 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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" Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me. "
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" To me, some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise, some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies. "
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Most