A biography for Paul Ruddhasn’t been written yet.
“I've been naked in a lot of my movies. There's something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine.”
“I grew up in the Midwest, where people seem to be friendly and nice to one another. There is less stress than in some of the other cities.”
“It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way.”
“Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else, and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.”
“As a kid, I know that most of my parents' friends were because my mom made friends with them, and my dad went along. I know a lot of dads who do that. I think it just starts to happen with guys. In the case of my father, he was probably just too busy reading books about Titanic.”
“My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel.”
“I'm not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood.”
“I was never much into knights and sorcery and that kind of thing. It's not because I was into anything cooler. I certainly wasn't. I played with LEGOs. I played with LEGOs way past when most people played with LEGOs.”
“I'm a big fan of not working.”
“I would say, up until 'Anchorman,' I wasn't any kind of household name or anything, but I wasn't necessarily identified as much with being a comedian.”
“I laugh much more during takes than I do during real life. Maybe because you're not supposed to. I've ruined many takes because I will lose it.”
“I've hitchhiked - it is 'hitchhiked,' and not 'hitchedhike' like 'passersby,' right? - a couple of times, but only in emergency situations, and that's really the time that it's okay to hitchhike.”
“I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously.”
“People do still mention 'Clueless' to me. I'm proud and happy that I was in it.”
“Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life.”
“Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work.”
“I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much.”
“Anybody that's going on a road trip and doesn't really want to get into a myriad of snacks is probably no one you want to get in the car with.”
“I really tried for a while to go with the Adam Ant look.”
“I find many of the people that I've worked with to be incredibly funny.”