125 Top Quotes By Paul Rudd That Are Straight From His Heart
While he was growing up, Paul Stephen Rudd was certainly drawn to comedy; but he always hoped to become a versatile actor, not just a comedian. He has once said, "I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes". However, he believes that humor is the most important thing in life, adding that it “trumps everything else, and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.” In interviews, he has talked as much about his work, as about his perception of his own self, about his parents and his youth, his likes and dislikes, his view on marriages etc. Let us look into some of his top quotes on happiness, love, time, theatre, parents, need etc.
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.
I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.
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.
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.
At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.
I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.
I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.
We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too.
My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.
I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.
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.
There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.
I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.
Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.
Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.
Oh, the weather outside is weather.
Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work.
The truth is, there are so many terrific places in New York because it's the greatest city in the world, and there are so many fascinating places to see that, frankly, it's humbling.
My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.
To try and sustain a performance is always a challenge. Anything you work on, to try and be real and show up and not look as if I'm playing pat to anything is always work.
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.
I'm, uh, not proud to say it - I play fantasy baseball. It's, like, the dorkiest thing ever.
I'm not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood.
I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.
I grew up in a lot of different places, mostly in Kansas, I really started thinking seriously about acting in high school; I just did it better than most of the other activities in school.
I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine.
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 don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously.
'Ant-Man' was a genre, I guess, that I hadn't really tackled before.
People do still mention 'Clueless' to me. I'm proud and happy that I was in it.
