Top 75 Paul Rudd Quotes

My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don’t think of it in those terms.

When I was in my early twenties, I used to grow all sorts of very weird beards. All of them awful in retrospect. I had Civil War beards for a while, then Mennonite beards.

Comedy-wise, I think Chris Elliott is one of the funniest people.

My parents raised me to treat people the way you would want to be treated and to be polite. Sometimes, when I get nervous or insecure, I might overcompensate and might not be totally true to what I am feeling inside. But I get nervous and maybe too smiley and polite.

Tea has always been a big thing in my life. And I’m not talking about Liptons with lemon or iced tea, or any of that nonsense. Has to be hot PG Tips with milk.

As a kid, I know that most of my parents’ friends were because my mom made friends with them, and my dad went along. I know a lot of dads who do that. I think it just starts to happen with guys. In the case of my father, he was probably just too busy reading books about Titanic.

You can make a lot of mistakes with hair because it grows back.

I’m, uh, not proud to say it – I play fantasy baseball. It’s, like, the dorkiest thing ever.

Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris – they’re both genius.

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.

I’ve been friends with Elizabeth Banks since ‘Wet Hot American Summer.’

I don’t feel like a dork, but I certainly have many moments of nerdism, and I embrace it wholeheartedly. I’ve always cottoned to that crowd more, anyway.

There are so many really good comedians, and I would never be as good as they are. It’s not my calling.

It’s not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way.

People do still mention ‘Clueless’ to me. I’m proud and happy that I was in it.

Personally – and I don’t mean to brag – my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life.

I laugh much more during takes than I do during real life. Maybe because you’re not supposed to. I’ve ruined many takes because I will lose it.

I am so appreciative I have been able to continue not only doing something I love, but working on movies I’ve loved.

I wasn’t one of those kids who was like, ‘I want to be an actor.’ It wasn’t in my wheelhouse at all. I wasn’t from a family that did this or in a place where people did this.

I was always in new schools and had British parents, which was not the norm, and I think there was also… I’m not particularly religious, but I was born Jewish, and I always felt like the outsider because I wasn’t Christian or Catholic.

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’m surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I’m working with.

My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan’s, and she made kugel.

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.

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

There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.

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

I’m a big fan of not working.

I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn’t get beaten up or teased as much.

I’m not good at small talk. I’m really not. I’m not that great at any talk.

I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don’t ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it’s on the stage, or it’s a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing.

Kiss is a super – they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it.

I think most marriages, mine included, you’re constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it.

I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical.

‘Divorce Court’ is a great show.

If someone made fun of me, I’d be bummed out. But I’d play it like I thought it was hilarious.

People have all different kinds of marriages. Whatever works for you.

‘Ant-Man’ was a genre, I guess, that I hadn’t really tackled before.

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.

I know a lot about the Titanic. My dad was a Titanic expert.

I went to college and studied theater; I went to a theater conservatory. I live in New York because I wanted to do plays and still do plays.

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.

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 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.

While there are so many great things in my life, you get older, and you have responsibilities. And things happen, like my dad dying – things that are tough to shake off. And there are things I’m still trying to figure out.

I’ve always loved David Letterman. There was an irreverence to his show that I remember, especially in ‘Late Night’ – it always seemed so fresh.

I treasure laughs more than anything; they’ve helped me in life the most.

I really tried for a while to go with the Adam Ant look.

I don’t find the characters I’ve played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously.

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

I love attempting to play real people. I like to try and have dramatic moments as well as comedic moments, and my favorite thing is when those two lines are blurred.

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.

Anybody that’s going on a road trip and doesn’t really want to get into a myriad of snacks is probably no one you want to get in the car with.

Puberty hit me pretty hard. All of a sudden, I woke up, and I had really curly hair.

It’s nice to be in anything that anybody sees or likes. If it’s something that has lasted, it’s great.

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.

My wife is very stealth-funny. She’ll come out with something when I’m not expecting it, and it’ll just kill me.

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.

Looking back, I’m really happy with the choices I’ve made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don’t know. But just about every single thing I’ve ever done I’ve gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way.

‘Anchorman’ was never supposed to be a popular, like, hit movie. That movie was a cheap movie – it felt like we were working on a weird independent comedy in a way.

I can talk about sports and stuff, but I have a season pass for ‘Antiques Roadshow’ on my TiVo.

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.

I find many of the people that I’ve worked with to be incredibly funny.

Anything traumatic in my life I’ve always dealt with through jokes and comedy.

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’d like to do something dramatic or a different kind of role, but I tend not to separate comedy and drama all that much.

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

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.

It’s insane but it’s a great insane.

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.