Paul Rudd

Actor

1969-04-06

Paul Rudd is an American actor known for film and television comedy and drama roles. He is widely recognized for portraying Ant-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Quotes by Paul Rudd

I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk.
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My parents raised me to treat people the way you would want to be treated and to be polite. Sometimes, when I get nervous or insecure, I might overcompensate and might not be totally true to what I am feeling inside. But I get nervous and maybe too smiley and polite.
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I was never much into knights and sorcery and that kind of thing. It's not because I was into anything cooler. I certainly wasn't. I played with LEGOs. I played with LEGOs way past when most people played with LEGOs.
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There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.
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I love straight guys that seem gay. I'm a little like that.
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My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.
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I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much.
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I think most marriages, mine included, you're constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it.
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Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adulthood. For me it was. That was when the Earth tilted on its axis, and there was a paradigm shift, and I felt like a different person.
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I know a lot about the Titanic. My dad was a Titanic expert.
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I treasure laughs more than anything; they've helped me in life the most.
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I do like the idea that tomorrow I might find out that I'm going to be doing something that is completely unknowable today. I think it forces you to live in the moment in a very good way.
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Growing up, I was certainly drawn to comedy, but my goal was just to be as well-rounded an actor as possible. I really liked Daniel Day-Lewis, and I thought, 'Oh, he's a good guy to try and emulate.'
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I don't feel like a dork, but I certainly have many moments of nerdism, and I embrace it wholeheartedly. I've always cottoned to that crowd more, anyway.
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Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.
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Puberty hit me pretty hard. All of a sudden, I woke up, and I had really curly hair.
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In eighth grade, I wore a tie to school every day. I didn't own jeans. But it wasn't a granola thing, it was really more of an INXS thing.
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All I really wanted to be was a working actor.
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