Paul Reiser Quotes

United States, Comedian
March 30, 1956

Paul Reiser is an American comedian, actor, writer, and musician. He is best known for his roles as Michael Taylor in the 1980s sitcom My Two Dads, Paul Buchman in the 1990s TV sitcom Mad About You, Carter Burke in the 1986 film Aliens, and more recently as Doug Getty in the Amazon TV series Red Oaks.

Also known as Actor, Writer, Musician

A new child in the house is a huge tourist attraction. It's like Disneyland, except there the lines are longer and no one brings casseroles.

Paul Reiser
- House
- Child
- Disneyland
Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

Paul Reiser

Happiness is the quiet lull between problems.

Paul Reiser
- Happiness
- Problems
- Quiet
Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

Paul Reiser
- Game
- Marriage
- Selfish
Every time I see Peter Falk in the movie I think that would be great. We'd be fun together.

Paul Reiser
- Great
- Movie
- Fun
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.

Paul Reiser
- Acting
- Production
- Input
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.

Paul Reiser
- Feel
- Room
- Spectator
They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

Paul Reiser

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.

Paul Reiser
- Guy
- Hands
- Directed
The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.

Paul Reiser