Paul Reiser
Paul Reiser
Paul Reiseris an American comedian, actor, television personality and writer, author and musician. He is best-known for his role in the 1990s TV sitcom Mad About You. He is ranked 77th on Comedy Central's 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time". The name of Reiser's production company, Nuance Productions, is inspired by one of his lines in the film Diner, in which his character explains his discomfort with the word "nuance"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth30 March 1957
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
They don't see that whole pattern. Worm/death. Worm/death. I would catch on.
In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].
I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me
There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.
There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.
Two or three times a week, I drive by the houses of numbers 78-100 just to rub it in,
And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on
The most used appliance in our house is my 10-year-old son Leon's Xbox.
There's something very refreshing about being on stage.
That's the nice thing about doing stand-up. There's no development, you just go out there and get an immediate response as to whether something is good or bad. Getting a laugh is the best measure of how well you're doing.
Happiness is the quiet lull between problems.
We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.
We're five years into the lean journey, and it is really starting to reveal big opportunities for us.
When I did, it was very casual, but I never told him about the project because at best I knew he'd say, 'Great, let me read it' and I'd have to say, 'It's not written yet.' So I didn't say anything,