Quotes

• ” On the very first day of shooting, we did a scene in which Michelle and I

  

  With Michelle Pfeiffer in I Could Never Be Your Woman.

  are in our underwear, and I’m straddlin g her and taking pictures of her with my cell phone. It was a very cool first day at the office, let’s just say that. “(Working with Michelle Pfeiffer in the movie, “I Could Never Be Your Woman”)

   

    

   

   

•  ” And, now, I’m here, eleven days after the… election has ended, and… you know, I just don’t feel the heat. It’s a little bit, kind of, like, you know, being in Times Square on New Year’s, uh, day. Kind of after everyone’s gone home, and there’s… garbage on the ground. ”

     

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

      

•  ” I have trouble with long-term things… roles, songs, video games. That’s why I was afraid of marriage, because it was like a lifelong game of Madden. “ 

   
     

• ” When I was doing The Shape of Things (2003), which we`d done as a play, it was just so tired by the time we rolled tape.” 

   

• “I always thought I’d be a really good gay guy. I love American Idol. I watch Antiques Roadshow like crazy. Guys like Oscar Wilde, Stephen Fry, Elton John—they’re all very bright, with a razor-sharp wit. David Sedaris—who’s funnier than David Sedaris? The Saturday Night Live I hosted was such a gay-heavy show. But It didn’t even cross my mind until after. The family that kept kissing each other—I didn’t even think of that as being gay. ”

    

• “I’m afraid of the Internet. I’m too old to tweet”
   
  
  
   
   

• “About his role in “Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers”: “Even when I was doing it, I knew this was something I’d always be teased about. And when I finally saw it, I thought my career was over.”
  

   

• “I don’t think it’s normal to live anyplace where it’s 70 degrees and sunny all the time. Many people think it’s paradise, but it’s fucking hell to me.”
  - Rudd on why he won’t live in Los Angeles to Playboy magazine, July 20 

   

   

• “I feel pretty fortunate that I’ve been able to make a jump to doing something like(Shakespeare) in a fairly short amount of time. I always hoped that it would happen.”
  -  Rudd to Time Out New York, July 2-9. 1998         

   

   

•  “I remember doing interviews for The Object Of My Affection, and people would say, ‘What was it like to kiss a guy?’ Like it was such a shocking thing. I said, ‘How many times does anyone ask, ‘You had to shoot somebody. Was that weird?’ I love gay guys. I feel pretty gay. I’m certainly not the most macho guy in the room.“

   

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

   

• “I’ve always felt like I’m the kind of actor that some people might recognize, but they probably don’t know my name. I don’t have a big drive to be ‘The Guy.’” 
  
  
   

• “My parents lost me in a bet, so I was raised by an Asian bookie who had sinister ties to drug lords in Tokyo. Have you seen ‘Black Rain’ with Michael Douglas? My childhood was just like that.”  

  
  

   

• “It was really like the easiest day of filming for us because we just had to stand there and watch, and all of the reactions were pretty organic.” 
   

    

• “The jokes are a little more left-of-center,” 
   

   

• “The only good thing was working with the great Donald Pleasance (in the last film before his death). But I remember the end credits listing ‘In loving memory of Donald Pleasance.’ How sad is that? Here’s a guy who worked with Pinter, starred in ‘The Great Escape’ and was one of Britain’s greatest actors, ending up in ‘Halloween VI’. I felt even worse for him than I did for myself.”
  - Paul Rudd quoted in the New York Post, Feb. 27, 1997      

   
   
     

   

• “Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. It trumps movies and all that other stuff. People say, “You must love the instant feedback,” and we’re all attention whores for sure – that’s why we choose this profession. But it goes beyond that: There’s something magical about a shared experience in a theater, with actors and an audience. I don’t know if the audience members realize just how huge a part they play in a production. How they are determines how we are, and when it all works, it’s magical.”  

   

   

   ” There`s a feeling of enrichment and challenge when it comes to doing a play, and especially doing, you know, a classical play or a tragic play. In a way, it works a different set of muscles, I guess. But I do love it, and I love great writing, whatever it is, and there are so many great plays, and a lot of the writing in a lot of plays is just stellar, and no one is making movies like that, or if they are, I`m certainly not getting cast in them. But you know, working on a comedy with your friends. Like, I would say that with Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) and The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) and Wet Hot American Summer (2001), I was working with people who are completely inspiring. I love being around that company, and I try and step up to the level of their game.”   

   

• “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. “ 

    

• “Early on I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms … And I feel I’ve remained true to myself for the most part.”    

    

• “I certainly feel like I have options and opportunities that I never had before … But I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop”.   

   
     

   

•  “I Could Never Be Your Woman”   

   

   

•  “I did find the whole top 10 (movies in theaters, plus TV shows, commercials, videos, everything, all streaming away. It took really less than seconds to start playing it all right onto my computer. I could have downloaded all of it but really, who has the time or the room? Later tonight I may finally catch up with Paul Rudd in I Love You, Man. It’s so much easier than going out in the rain!   

  
   

•  “I’m pulling my pants up in front of a urinal and my (rear end) is sticking out and the guy just like, walks in “    

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

   

• “If you spend more time with me you’ll see it really isn’t acting”     

   

   
    

•  “It’s a pretty despicable character. So to try to get the audience on your side before the actual brutality sets in was a bit of a challenge.”

    

   

•  “It’s insane but it’s a great insane.”    

      

   
   
   
   
   
   

   

• “It’s weird because we are under the microscope in a way that other shows might not be.”  
   

     

• “Jason adds levels of floppy doggedness to Sydney, as well as a dim shade”   

   

   

• “Let’s go to dinner next week … I will see you there, sir. “   
   

     

   

• “One of the really appealing things about Peter is this goodness and heart-on-his-sleeve honesty he has”    

    
     

   

• “Paul Rudd describes me as being able to stay sweet while getting incredibly close to the creepy line, and I think there’s some truth to that “   

   

    

• “There are a number of examples of employees valuing e-learning,”  

   

  
    

•  “They can feel very sure that they are not going to make fools of themselves in front of others. Any questions they want to ask they can, through the learning advisors we have here, or through posting questions on the Web site, but at the end of the day there will always be a role for face-to-face learning”   

   

    

• “They’re a band that many guys like, and girls are not so into “   

   
  

• “Unless there’s a chance that they downloaded it off of iTunes and they’re watching it on their iPod … Which would give you an iDick.”   

    

• “We’re now the (junior varsity) version of that,”    

   
   

•  “When I was doing The Shape of Things (2003), which we’d done as a play, it was just so tired by the time we rolled tape.”  

   
  

•  “When you leave the theater, there’s anywhere from 500 to 1,000 people waiting in the street, across the street.”   

    

   

• On his Broadway debut in Alfred Uhry’s “The Last Night of Ballyhoo”: “I tried to suck in every moment of it when I would walk to reheasal carrying my script and having coffe, and thinking, ‘I’m on my way to rehearse a Broadway play.’ The feeling of history in that was thrilling.”
  - Rudd to The New York Times, April 26, 1998