87 Quotes by Paul Reubens

I'm just trying to illustrate that it's okay to be different — not that it's good, not that it's bad, but that it's all right. I'm trying to tell kids to have a good time and to encourage them to be creative and to question things,

When I was about five my dad built a stage for me in our basement. A full stage, with a curtain, a backdrop and a dressing room. There were three colored spotlights - a red one, a white one, and a blue one. Blue was for nighttime scenes, and red was for when we were in hell. If the neighborhood kids wanted to use the stage, they had to incorporate me into the play.

I know you are, but what am I?

I wouldn’t sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!

There are things about me you wouldn’t understand, things you couldn’t understand, things you shouldn’t understand.

The public may think I’m weird. They may think I’m crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That’s all fine. As long as one of the things you’re not thinking about me is that I’m a pedophile. Because that’s not true.

I’m the person with the final say on everything. I really love being in that position.

The first time I met Prince he invented me to his birthday party in Minneapolis. It was a costume party and I came as a beatnik – a beret and a charcoal goatee. He was dressed like an executioner. I talked to him for awhile and he didn’t know who I was, and when I told him he was real surprised.

I think the first time I was on The David Letterman Show, he didn’t quite know what to expect. I think people generally are just a little afraid.