Paul Rudd Quotes

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

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#3. 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.

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#4. My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

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#5. 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.

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

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

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#9. 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.

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

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

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#12. 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.

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

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#14. It's insane but it's a great insane.

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#15. Oh, the weather outside is weather.

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

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

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

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#20. 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.

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

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#22. 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.

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

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

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#25. At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

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#26. When life hands you lemons, just say fuck the lemons and bail.

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