Top 100 Seth Rogen Quotes
#1. Every once in a while you definitely have to film someone for half an hour saying something that you do not think is funny because for the previous two hours they said a bunch of stuff that you think is really funny.
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#3. All my friends are talented enough to get nominated for awards. I just am always surprised when things and people I like are also liked by things like the Oscars.
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#4. My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.
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#5. I didn't think I'd ever be an actor.
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#6. In "Superbad," I carry a gun, but I didn't get to shoot it that much.
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#7. When I was a little kid, I used to say, "I would rather host the Oscars than win an Oscar." To me, that seemed like the more appealing, fun gig.
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#8. I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control.
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#9. Please don't wear skinny jeans if you don't have skinny genes.
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#10. You don't have to put dresses in a movie to make girls like it.
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#11. My characters come from a good place.
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#12. I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.'
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#13. I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.
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#14. You don't often see fight scenes with people who have no idea how to fight.
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#15. I'm proud to say that I've never had a normal job. I started doing stand-up when I was in high school, purely as a measure to never get a proper job.
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#16. I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.
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#17. Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.
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#18. If you take a tube TV to a donation center, they won't accept it.
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#19. The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.
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#20. I've never had something - like, you know, drunk people have tried to do that to me, and I instantly shut it off. I say, don't to this, dude; you'll feel terrible about this later. It'll be - I'll bring it up all the time; I'll make fun of you. Just save yourself the embarrassment and don't do it.
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#21. I'm intimidated anytime I work with someone who's directly outside my very insulated group of friends.
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#22. I did karate for a really long time, almost 10 years when I was younger.
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#23. Just always be extremely respectful, was something that was drilled into me, which I think probably prevented me from having sex for a good seven years longer than it should have.
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#24. It's my mission to sue the MPAA and take them down. I don't know how to go about doing that. But to me, it seems like it's something that has to be taken care of.
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#25. I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.
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#26. There's just nothing funnier than, like, a guy awkwardly explaining to another guy that he's hurt his feelings, and then later, awkwardly, you know, forgiving him for doing that.
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#27. We live in a world where in the movie you can disembowel someone in a youth hostel in Romania, but you can't show people having sex. I think it's weird.
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#28. Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent.
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#29. I think people do get better as the movies go on sometimes, and I'm always happy that we're shooting out of order, so it's kind of scattered throughout the movie, and there isn't like a clear build in everyone finding their characters.
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#30. To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature.
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#31. I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life.
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#32. I do believe in monsters oddly enough. I think they're under my bed. But aliens are ridiculous; monsters I think are real completely though.
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#33. Steve Wozniak literally one of the sweetest guys. And that was kind of the thing I had to reconcile: how do I try to do this guy's sweetness justice in some capacity when most of the things I'm doing in the movie are pretty confrontational, and pretty argumentative.
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#34. To me, always just - that scene is, like, so convenient. They never run out of bullets in action movies, unless it's at the most dramatic time possible.
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#35. To me, when there's movies that are about, you know, guys named Hell Boy, and you know, the issue that they have with our movie that she doesn't get an abortion, I mean, I think there's greater suspensions of disbelief ...
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#36. I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots.
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#37. We just kind of wanted to play with these iconic moments of action. There's a really small one that always makes me laugh really hard, where there's a big shootout at the end, and the moment my gun runs out of bullets, I turn and there's just another gun sitting there, and I'm, like, oh, nice.
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#38. If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.
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#39. Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea.
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#40. Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.
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#41. For me and my wife ... the easiest part of my life is my marriage. Like if everything was as smooth and easy and fun as my relationship with my wife then I would have a much easier time getting through the day. We really get along and we like the same stuff.
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#42. Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.
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#43. I don't even have a stalker. I'm just not the guy that people stalk.
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#44. Every time I improvise I'm aware that I could be ruining what it is that we're doing and we'll just have to do it again.
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#45. In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world.
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#46. Oftentimes what happens actually is people say to me, 'I didn't know if it was you or not, and then I heard you laugh, and then obviously I could tell it was you.'
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#47. My mom's a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.
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#48. I'm not the most in-tune guy with what is getting nominated and winning awards in general.
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#50. There is a certain security in having a great supporting cast.
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#51. It's important to see your parents as individuals. As a son or as a daughter you don't stop and think that your parents might have their own expectations, dreams or disappointments.
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#52. Alzheimer's is a family disease ... It requires countless hours of care, which are typically provided by family caregivers ... Wi thout professional help, it can be impossible to juggle providing that care with jobs, raising kids or just time for yourself.
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#53. I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.
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#54. I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.
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#55. We started when we're around 13 writing it - maybe 14. I'm a little older than Evan Goldberg is, like, only like six months. But like, I would say, like, the general structure of the movie, like, the series of events is very similar to what it was when we first wrote it.
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#56. The great thing about reading for Quentin [Tarantino] is you're not reading for him, he's reading with you. So he sits right next to you.
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#57. I know most people don't like their jobs very much and don't get a lot of personal satisfaction from their jobs. That's something that I really do get a lot of.
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#58. Some of my friends would lie to girls to get them, or do things that - you know, they would cheat on girls. I was just never in the realm of what, you know, what's instilled to me, you know? Yeah, I mean, my mom's a social worker, for God's sakes.
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#59. I've never really had a real job. When I was young doing stand-up, I'd get 50 bucks a week here or 100 bucks a week there. Sometimes for headlining one of the rooms, or MC-ing, or something like that. So, I've never had like a normal job.
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#60. Uh, stay fat people - That's my motto. It's no picnic!
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#61. I'm a process server, so I have to wear a suit.
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#62. I first did standup at a lesbian bar. I didn't know it was a lesbian bar at the time, but the lesbians loved me. I was huge among the lesbians and am to this day. I'm thrilled with the lesbian support.
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#63. It is always exciting when you find someone who is really enthusiastic about being half of a comedy team.
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#64. I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.
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#65. I go to the theater, all the time. I'm not one of these secret movie, watch a 35mm print in my living the weekend it comes out guys. I'm not Jon Bon Jovi. I go to the Arclight, like a regular asshole.
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#66. To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.
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#67. We don't often have the luxury of time [in Steve Jobs movie ]to have these conversations where you just literally get to sit around for day and days and analyze every line of dialogue.
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#68. With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.
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#69. Claiming that someone's marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a donut because you're on a diet.
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#70. For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard.
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#71. I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin.
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#72. I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.
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#74. I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry ... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.
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#75. I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.
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#76. When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor. I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior and I haven't moved one step forward since.
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#78. There is no such thing as a villain. It's the others who are wrong. In as much, all villains are the same.
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#79. I watch a lot of TV. I love nothing more than having a good TV show on DVD, to just plow through.
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#80. I'm very curious in regards to "The Hateful Eight" specifically about the blocking of the movie. Because in comedies, we don't block. We basically like have to position the actors' bodies in the way that is most conducive to filming both of them simultaneously.
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#81. I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.
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#82. It always seems crazy to tell people what to expect. That never works! So, I don't know what to say, other than that they can expect me.
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#83. You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.
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#84. I'm not really a goal-oriented guy.
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#85. I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.
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#86. I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.
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#87. People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I'm not like George Clooney.
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#88. I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.
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#89. My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'
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#90. There was a year straight where every weekend, I went to at least one bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, and we would all go, and it was a lot of fun. We sneak some beer; we'd hang out; we would try to get with girls and not. And usually we'd just end up hanging out together alone.
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#91. I honestly don't love the Cheech and Chong movies, I've got to say.
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#92. I've seen a lot of movies get made where no one has control. No one likes it.
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#93. It's much more painful to bomb in front of a group of yours peers than it is to not win. Tons of assholes ain't winning awards, but only one guy will be bombing. So, that's much more nerve-wracking.
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#94. I remember when I got my first Adam Sandler CD and it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard in my entire life, and continues to be.
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#95. Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks.
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#96. It's nice to win an award, I would assume. I've never won one, but I would imagine it's great. I have no idea what I'll do.
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#97. To me it's a mystery that you can show the horrific things in the movies, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does.
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#98. You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.
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#99. It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.
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