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"50 Paul Rudd Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 6 April 1969 | Actor | Comedian | Filmmaker |

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

About Everybody First Generic
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It's insane but it's a great insane.

Great Insane
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Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
Actor Enriching Most Theater
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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.

Am Anything Because Bothers
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I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

Because Comedian Concern Consider
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I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

Actor Approval Had Need
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Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

Anguish Behind Ever Everything
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My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

Away Father Few Life
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If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilarious.
Fun Hilarious Like Made
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Fear is what makes comedy funny.

Comedy Fear Funny Makes
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Sometimes I think I'm funny. But then sometimes I see myself, and I think, 'There's somebody trying to be funny.'

Funny Myself See Somebody
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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.'

Afraid Because Game Games
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I love straight guys that seem gay. I'm a little like that.
Gay Guys Like Little
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I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk.

Any Good Great Really
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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.

Awful Civil Early Grow
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I treasure laughs more than anything; they've helped me in life the most.
Anything Helped Laughs Life
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There's a lot of people I would be more than a little overwhelmed by and thrilled to work with.

Little Lot More Overwhelmed
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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.

Anybody Car Get Going
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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.

About Cool Good Growing
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I really tried for a while to go with the Adam Ant look.

Adam Ant Go Look
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Puberty hit me pretty hard. All of a sudden, I woke up, and I had really curly hair.

Curly Had Hair Hard
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I know a lot about the Titanic. My dad was a Titanic expert.

About Dad Expert Know
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I think most marriages, mine included, you're constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it.

Constantly Garden Included Marriages
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People have all different kinds of marriages. Whatever works for you.

Different Kinds Marriages People
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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.

Any Bleed Character Creepy
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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.

Because Laugh Life Lose
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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.'

Action Agenda Am Comedy
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I always try and hold to that saying, 'I want to work on things I'd want to see.' The vast majority, that's been true.

Always Been Hold Majority
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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.
Able Am Appreciative Been
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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.

Comedy Different Drama Dramatic
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You can make a lot of mistakes with hair because it grows back.
Back Because Grows Hair
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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.

Beaten Comedy Could Get
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I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.

Annoyance Best Continually David
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There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.
About Good Great Healthy
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There are so many really good comedians, and I would never be as good as they are. It's not my calling.

Calling Comedians Good Many
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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.

About Actor Being Lot
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I find many of the people that I've worked with to be incredibly funny.
Find Funny Incredibly Many
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I went to college and studied theater; I went to a theater conservatory. I live in New York because I wanted to do plays and still do plays.

Because College Conservatory Live
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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.

Adulthood Axis Different Earth
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There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.
Alpha Am Does Feel
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All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

Actor Really Wanted Working
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I'm a big fan of not working.
Big Fan Working
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Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.

Always Anything Comedy Dealt
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Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me.

Awkward Embarrassment Foreign Me
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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.
Come Expecting Just Me
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Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it.

Businessmen Kiss Pride Super
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Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy.

Awkwardness Comedy Gold Mine
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I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake.

Car Crowded Funny Laugh
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Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms.
Career Could Decided Early
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It's nice to be in anything that anybody sees or likes. If it's something that has lasted, it's great.

Anybody Anything Great Lasted
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