Top 125 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Rudd

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Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Paul Stephen Rudd is an American actor and filmmaker. He studied theater at the University of Kansas and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, before making his acting debut in 1991. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in July 2015. He was named as part of the Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2019. In 2021, he was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive".

American - Actor | Born: April 6, 1969

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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.

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

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

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

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Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adulthood. For me it was. That was when the Earth tilted on its axis, and there was a paradigm shift, and I felt like a different person.

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

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Sometimes I think I'm funny. But then sometimes I see myself, and I think, 'There's somebody trying to be funny.'

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

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

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

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

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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.

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I used to ask my mom to try and shave my head on the sides to give me a receding hairline because Adam Ant had one.

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Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.

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There's a lot of people I would be more than a little overwhelmed by and thrilled to work with.

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I've hitchhiked - it is 'hitchhiked,' and not 'hitchedhike' like 'passersby,' right? - a couple of times, but only in emergency situations, and that's really the time that it's okay to hitchhike.

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'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.

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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.

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For a while, I tried to masquerade as somewhat of a hippie because I was under the impression that was the kind of guy girls would like. I was pretty unsuccessful because I liked the idea of camping more than actually camping. I did go to a Grateful Dead concert, but I was pretty bored.

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I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That's why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of 'Madden.'

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

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

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

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At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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I think there's something kind of good about growing up in a place you know is not the cool place to be. I think it's good for your head.

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

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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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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.

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Growing up, I was certainly drawn to comedy, but my goal was just to be as well-rounded an actor as possible. I really liked Daniel Day-Lewis, and I thought, 'Oh, he's a good guy to try and emulate.'

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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.

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I don't have an agenda where I do a comedy and say, 'I have to do a drama next,' or 'I am looking for an action movie now.'

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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.

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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.

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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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I'm not that nice - it's one of those things that reveals itself over time. You could talk to people who know me well; they could give you a laundry list. Except they probably wouldn't because they're petrified.

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Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me.

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I love straight guys that seem gay. I'm a little like that.

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I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine.

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

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I always try and hold to that saying, 'I want to work on things I'd want to see.' The vast majority, that's been true.

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My sister was born a couple years after I was, and I realized that I wasn't getting enough attention, as much attention as I used to before she showed up, and then I learned pretty early on that if I could do a silly dance or make grown-ups laugh, then the attention would come back to me, and I would be accepted.

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

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There is something about growing up in the Midwest that gives a different kind of sensibility. But if I'm feeling insecure, the smiles and politeness get upped a notch, and maybe that isn't totally reflective of how I'm feeling on the inside.

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Fear is what makes comedy funny.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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