154 Quotes by Paul Rudd

To try and sustain a performance is always a challenge. Anything you work on, to try and be real and show up and not look as if I'm playing pat to anything is always work.

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

The truth is, there are so many terrific places in New York because it's the greatest city in the world, and there are so many fascinating places to see that, frankly, it's humbling.

If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilarious.

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.

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

When I was in my early twenties, I used to grow all sorts of very weird beards. All of them awful in retrospect. I had Civil War beards for a while, then Mennonite beards.

Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work.

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