87 Quotes by Paul Reubens

I have a deal with a company that’s going to do cards without the gum. I don’t like sugarless gum, and I don’t think it’s much better for you.

We’re in a situation now where fewer and fewer small films get made. People want these big giant tentpole sort of things, and I don’t know, it’s getting harder and harder to make a small movie.

I can sit in the room with the other writers and just keep saying no until there’s something I really like or until I come up with something. In that respect the proportion of what’s mine and what’s other people’s is controlled by me. It isn’t even fair to talk about.

People read so much into what I do. It’s fascinating to me because some of it’s probably there, but I haven’t thought of it.

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of ‘I Love Lucy’ on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it’s so much more real.

I’ve been super lucky in that I’ve either been in or helped create situations where I do what I want. I’m super lucky. I get to do what I want and create art and make people laugh, and it’s really fun.

I usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, “It may appear that I’m going to go haywire, but I’m not.” I always map out what I’m going to do. Still, a lot of it is improvised.

I enjoy getting to be arty and quirky and weird and all the things that I don’t have that much choice with. You just sort of use what you got.