Paul Rudd

“Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.”

“I treasure laughs more than anything; they've helped me in life the most.”

“I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical.”

“I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing.”

“My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.”

“Comedy-wise, I think Chris Elliott is one of the funniest people.”

“There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.”

“You can make a lot of mistakes with hair because it grows back.”

“I think there's something kind of good about growing up in a place you know is not the cool place to be. I think it's good for your head.”

“What's weird is that anybody can write anything, and once it goes online, it's permanent. My very first biography on IMDb, which was written by a manager I had at the time, was not true.”

“There are so many really good comedians, and I would never be as good as they are. It's not my calling.”

“While there are so many great things in my life, you get older, and you have responsibilities. And things happen, like my dad dying - things that are tough to shake off. And there are things I'm still trying to figure out.”

“I used to love, love Steve Martin. I still do... I would get these albums, and I would just listen to them all the time. I would stand in my room and pretend that I was delivering his comedy routine... And I don't know if that planted any kind of seed, but I wasn't raised going to the theatre.”

“I grew up in a lot of different places, mostly in Kansas, I really started thinking seriously about acting in high school; I just did it better than most of the other activities in school.”