Top 74 Quotes & Sayings by Pauly Shore
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Last updated on September 10, 2024.
When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing.
I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.
That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.
I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me.
'Entourage' is a staple L.A.-based show, and people say it's pretty real, and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth.
I really don't go out every night to red-carpet events.
People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.
I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?
I'm not used to getting good reviews.
My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of memorizing their lines, and the whole process of starting to work with the other actors and the director, and doing rehearsals, and going to the location, and going through wardrobe.
I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.
I fly around with chicks on each arm and have no script. I just talk about what I feel like. But that's why my act works: I'm like this normal guy.
Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me.
We all have a past; it's just that my past is out there for all to see.
Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.
I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil. Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.
I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?
I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.
Everywhere I go, people know who I am.
My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.
Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.
Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.
In my 30s, it wasn't cool to like Pauly Shore movies. It was cool to like them when they came out, then it wasn't cool.
When you put yourself out into the world and say, 'Hey, look at me,' you're going to get criticized.
When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.
I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.
Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. I was just inherently funny when I was a kid.
The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.
The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?
I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.
Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me.
It's in my blood to tour. It's in my blood to get on the road. It's in my blood to go onstage.
I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.
I don't think any of us would be who we are if our parents weren't who they were. People that are in show business, and their parents are not in show business, their parents probably motivated them to get in show business.
I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.
The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.
When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.
Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.
The public was used to a Pauly Shore film coming out every year or two, you understand? So when that went away, the public lost familiarity with me.
I want to do an 'Extreme Makeover' show. You know that MTV show 'I Want To Have A Famous Face'? Well, I want to do a new show. I want to have a different famous face.
Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream.
Physically, my character is stronger than him which is totally unrealistic, ... Because in reality he can ... kill me. I think it has a lot to do with (him being) the youngest of all of his brothers, and I think he got beat up a lot.
I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or hidden camera or parody. Kind of slap it in a movie with hip-hop artists and actors, comedians and girls. I just want to do something fun.
People in bigger towns are very aware of their surroundings. The people in the smaller markets, they will show up with flip-flops and shorts and just kind of already have a buzz on.
I liked Evel Knievel, and that game Mouse Trap. That was pretty cool.
I remember taking mushrooms at the wrap party, it was like the first and last time I took that.
My belief is guns don't kill people, people kill people.
The MTV thing is the thing that I will always tip my hat to because that was like my acting class and how I got comfortable in front of a camera and how I kind of created my own thing.
All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that's why I think we're good. That's why we're on top of the game now because we were born in it.
I want to have my face look like Brad Pitt. Then I'll be with Jennifer Aniston and then Angelina Jolie. Then the real Brad Pitt will come in, and we'll have a Brad Pitt face-off.
Small towns seem to appreciate things a little bit more. They're less jaded and they're more kind of authentic and more themselves and they don't care as much.
I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil.
Find something that you want to do when you're 60. Find your passion. Your passion, your work, whatever it is that you want to do. Find something that you would do, even if you didn't get paid. Whether it's an art or whether is something that you're passionate about.
I kind of was raised at The Comedy Store by comedians. When you see my dad on stage before me and then you see me, you'll see where I got a lot of my stuff.
I become friends with people in each city who can show me around. Like if someone came to Los Angeles they wouldn't really know where to go, so they'd have to call me up and then I'd show them around.
When I shot the movie, I wasn't gonna think about anything except for being the biggest knucklehead in the world.
America's Most Wanted? I love it when there's a guy in the back seat pounding his head on the plexiglas. That to me is the best.
The Comedy Store attracts all types of people, growing up I was able to meet them all.
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