Paul Rudd quotes:

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.

Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.

Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.

There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.

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

I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

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

Oh, the weather outside is weather.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

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

A lot of people say, "What's the worst part about being an actor?" And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

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

I was at a dinner party with a group of people, and we were talking about fake names. You know, how its difficult to come up with a really great fake name. Its a very specific type of gift. You don't want to go too far into the silly, and you don't want to go too far into the banal. I always thought one of the funniest names ever was Gern Blanston, which came from a Steve Martin routine on one of his early records.

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

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.

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.

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

To me some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.

We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too.

Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.