Paul Rudd Quotations

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

I can, and do, walk the street. No one bothers me or anything, because most people wouldn't know who I am.

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

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

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

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

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.

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

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

When I was doing "Shape of Things," which we'd done as a play, it was just so tired by the time we rolled tape.

When I was doing ""Shape of Things,"" which we'd done as a play, it was just so tired by the time we rolled tape.

There are a number of examples of employees valuing e-learning,

When you leave the theater, there's anywhere from 500 to 1,000 people waiting in the street, across the street.

It was really like the easiest day of filming for us because we just had to stand there and watch, and all of the reactions were pretty organic.

It's a pretty despicable character. So to try to get the audience on your side before the actual brutality sets in was a bit of a challenge.

It's weird because we are under the microscope in a way that other shows might not be.

They can feel very sure that they are not going to make fools of themselves in front of others. Any questions they want to ask they can, through the learning advisors we have here, or through posting questions on the Web site, but at the end of the day there will always be a role for face-to-face learning

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

I was at a dinner party with a group of people, and we were talking about fake names. You know, how its difficult to come up with a really great fake name. Its a very specific type of gift. You don't want to go too far into the silly, and you don't want to go too far into the banal. I always thought one of the funniest names ever was Gern Blanston, which came from a Steve Martin routine on one of his early records.

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.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too.

I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.

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.

There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before, just hits every checkpoint." All of that takes a secondary status for me if I'm reading something and I just really like the characters.

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

Oh, the weather outside is weather.

Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

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.

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.

Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process.

Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.

Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.