Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen
Seth Aaron Rogen is a Canadian–American actor, filmmaker, and comedian. He began his career performing stand-up comedy during his teenage years, winning the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest in 1998. While still living in his native Vancouver, he landed a supporting role in the series Freaks and Geeks. Shortly after he moved to Portland, Oregon for his role, Freaks and Geeks was officially cancelled after one season due to low viewership. Rogen later got a part on sitcom Undeclared, which also...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 April 1982
CityVancouver, Canada
CountryCanada
After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.
Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea.
I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.
I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin.
I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.
I was pretty young. I guess I was in high school, so I was probably 13 years old. It was crazy. I remember it very vividly. I remember - it was actually kind of horrifying, because one of my friends - we smoked out of a bong, and one of my friends - this was so stupid - he didn't want to bring - it was after school on a Friday, and he didn't - we smoked weed in this park called the Ravine that was across the street from my high school.
People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.
If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.
I was, like, a brown belt, which is pretty good. I entered a tournament once, and I punched the guy in the throat and got disqualified. I realized - I don't know if you're familiar with "Karate Kid," but the bad guys in that are called Cobra Kai, and they're, like, the evil karate guys. And then when I went to the tournament, I realized that's what we were; we were like the Cobra Kai of the Jewish karate community.
The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.
The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.
I honestly don't love the Cheech and Chong movies, I've got to say.
I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.
I'm intimidated anytime I work with someone who's directly outside my very insulated group of friends.