A biography for Paul Ruddhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Sometimes you read a script, and it's like, 'You'll improv, and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be,' and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really.”
“I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.”
“Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.”
“'Ant-Man' was a genre, I guess, that I hadn't really tackled before.”
“I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with.”
“I used to live next door to a farm, so every day for awhile, I used to walk over and fed the cows, when I was in school. This was weird because I lived in sort of a subdivision, but this one holdout in our neighborhood in Kansas still had a farm.”
“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.”
“My wife is very stealth-funny. She'll come out with something when I'm not expecting it, and it'll just kill me.”
“I love straight guys that seem gay. I'm a little like that.”
“I hated 'Top Gun.'”
“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.”
“I'm, uh, not proud to say it - I play fantasy baseball. It's, like, the dorkiest thing ever.”
“Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy.”
“I can talk about sports and stuff, but I have a season pass for 'Antiques Roadshow' on my TiVo.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am so appreciative I have been able to continue not only doing something I love, but working on movies I've loved.”
“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.”
“'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.”