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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 am so appreciative I have been able to continue not only doing something I love, but working on movies I've loved. "

Paul Rudd

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" I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That's why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of 'Madden.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical. "

" 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. "

" My wife is very stealth-funny. She'll come out with something when I'm not expecting it, and it'll just kill me. "

" I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk. "

" 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. "

" The truth is, there are so many terrific places in New York because it's the greatest city in the world, and there are so many fascinating places to see that, frankly, it's humbling. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

Paul Rudd

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" 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. "

" At my core, I'm a Midwesterner. "

Paul Rudd

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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. "

" There are so many really good comedians, and I would never be as good as they are. It's not my calling. "

" 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. "

" People have all different kinds of marriages. Whatever works for you. "

" 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. "

" Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy. "

" I've been friends with Elizabeth Banks since 'Wet Hot American Summer.' "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" I can talk about sports and stuff, but I have a season pass for 'Antiques Roadshow' on my TiVo. "

" 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. "

" My parents raised me to treat people the way you would want to be treated and to be polite. Sometimes, when I get nervous or insecure, I might overcompensate and might not be totally true to what I am feeling inside. But I get nervous and maybe too smiley and polite. "

" I love straight guys that seem gay. I'm a little like that. "

Paul Rudd

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