154 Quotes by Paul Rudd

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

At my core, I’m a Midwesterner.

There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, “Oh, these are cliches, we’ve seen this before, just hits every checkpoint.” All of that takes a secondary status for me if I’m reading something and I just really like the characters.

I’m sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you’re pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you’re having to really do it seriously and there’s nothing there. You’ve got to put faith in the process.

I can, and do, walk the street. No one bothers me or anything, because most people wouldn’t know who I am.

I don’t consider myself a comedian because I don’t really concern myself too much with jokes.

Sometimes you read a script and it’s like, “You’ll improv and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be,” and that’s never a good sign. And it’s never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really.

I don’t really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.