Top 185 Quotes & Sayings by Seth Rogen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian actor Seth Rogen.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Seth Rogen

Seth Aaron Rogen is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. Originally a stand-up comedian in Vancouver, he moved to Los Angeles for a part in Judd Apatow's series Freaks and Geeks, and then got a part on the sitcom Undeclared, which also hired him as a writer. After landing his job as a staff writer on the final season of Da Ali G Show, Apatow guided Rogen toward a film career. As a staff writer, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.

It is always exciting when you find someone who is really enthusiastic about being half of a comedy team.
I'm a complete coward in real life.
The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing. — © Seth Rogen
The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.
Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.
A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.
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.
If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.
You don't often see fight scenes with people who have no idea how to fight.
To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.
I eat well, and I exercise.
My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.
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.
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.
Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea. — © Seth Rogen
Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea.
My characters come from a good place.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
I love cold weather.
I mean, I love Comic-Con.
Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.
I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.
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.
I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.
My mom's a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.
Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.
To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature.
I'll vote for whoever is the Democrat. That's all I need to know.
I honestly don't love the Cheech and Chong movies, I've got to say.
I don't weigh myself.
Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent.
As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.
I've seen a lot of movies get made where no one has control. No one likes it.
I didn't think I'd ever be an actor.
I'm so good at procrastinating.
I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.
After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor. — © Seth Rogen
After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.
People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I'm not like George Clooney.
I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.
You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.
There is a certain security in having a great supporting cast.
My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'
I'm not the most in-tune guy with what is getting nominated and winning awards in general.
I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.
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.
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.
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.
Life, as I see it, is R-rated. — © Seth Rogen
Life, as I see it, is R-rated.
I'm not really a goal-oriented guy.
I'm intimidated anytime I work with someone who's directly outside my very insulated group of friends.
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.
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.
People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.
The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.
You don't have to put dresses in a movie to make girls like it.
Most comedy comes out of misery.
I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.
Please don't wear skinny jeans if you don't have skinny genes.
It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.
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