Paul Rudd

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

“Growing up, if I had been given any advice - bad or good - I probably wouldn't have been able to act on it regardless. I wasn't shy, but I'd get nervous. I got a little more confident later in high school when I realized I could get girls to pay attention to me by making them laugh.”

“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. 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.'”

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

“התשוקה שלי להשתלב הייתה כמו של כולם. בגלל המעברים ובתי הספר החדשים, וכיוון שההורים שלי היו מלונדון, הרגשתי אאוטסיידר. ניסיתי להיות אמפתי לסבל של אנשים. אם מישהו התנהג כמו בריון, תמיד ניסיתי לחשוב למה הוא מתנהג ככה. זה לא אומר שחיבבתי אותם. פשוט יש בי סימפטיה לאנשים.”

“כל הרעיון של הקומונות הללו נשמע רומנטי יותר בתיאוריה מאשר במציאות, כמו במערכות יחסים שהדבר שהכי מושך אותך לאדם יכול בקלות להיות אותו דבר שתלמד הכי לשנוא. הרעיון של חיים משותפים יכול בקלות להיות דבר שרק תרצה לברוח ממנו.”

“אני רוצה דמויות שאפשר להזדהות איתן. אני רוצה שהצופים יחשבו: 'אני מכיר את ההרגשה, גם אני מרגיש ככה לפעמים', ולא: 'אני לא מבין מה הבחור הזה עושה'.”

“אני רואה את עצמי עושה עוד תיאטרון, עושה עוד סרטים עצמאיים ועושה עוד סרטים של מארוול. אני רק רוצה להיות שחקן שעובד על דברים שהוא אוהב, שהם משמעותיים ומאתגרים.”

“At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.”

“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.”

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

“I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake.”

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

“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.”

“Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris - they're both genius.”

“Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.”

“All I really wanted to be was a working actor.”

“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.”

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