Zitat des Tages von Paul Rudd:
Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.
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.
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.
I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical.
Who knows what critics are thinking? I know that you make more of a name for yourself, make more of an interesting review, if you're kind of mean-spirited.
My wife is very stealth-funny. She'll come out with something when I'm not expecting it, and it'll just kill me.
It's insane but it's a great insane.
Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms.
Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.
I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk.
People do still mention 'Clueless' to me. I'm proud and happy that I was in it.
I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.
My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel.
If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilarious.
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.
Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.
I've been friends with Elizabeth Banks since 'Wet Hot American Summer.'
Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it.
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.
I can, and do, walk the street. No one bothers me or anything, because most people wouldn't know who I am.
My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.
There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.
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.
I was never much into knights and sorcery and that kind of thing. It's not because I was into anything cooler. I certainly wasn't. I played with LEGOs. I played with LEGOs way past when most people played with LEGOs.
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.
I would say, up until 'Anchorman,' I wasn't any kind of household name or anything, but I wasn't necessarily identified as much with being a comedian.
There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.
Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy.
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'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.
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.
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.
I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.
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.
I used to love, love Steve Martin. I still do... I would get these albums, and I would just listen to them all the time. I would stand in my room and pretend that I was delivering his comedy routine... And I don't know if that planted any kind of seed, but I wasn't raised going to the theatre.
Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me.
