Paul Rudd
Paul Rudd
Paul Stephen Ruddis an American actor, comedian, writer and producer. He studied theatre at the University of Kansas and the British American Drama Academy, before making his acting debut in 1992 with NBC's drama series Sisters. He is known for his starring roles in the film The Cider House Rulesand the comedy films Clueless, Wet Hot American Summer, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Role Models, I Love You, Man, Dinner for Schmucks, Our Idiot...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth6 April 1969
CityPassaic, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
It's weird because we are under the microscope in a way that other shows might not be.
It's a pretty despicable character. So to try to get the audience on your side before the actual brutality sets in was a bit of a challenge.
It was really like the easiest day of filming for us because we just had to stand there and watch, and all of the reactions were pretty organic.
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When you leave the theater, there's anywhere from 500 to 1,000 people waiting in the street, across the street.
Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.
We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,
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.
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.
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.
Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.
Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.
My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.
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.