Paul Rudd (Paul Stephen Rudd) Quotes
I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.
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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.
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For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.
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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
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I've always wanted to do a family movie.
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Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
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There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.
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IF you want to see my monument, look around you!
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Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant story itself brings about their elimination! Then the illusion might go on for a very long time, might have to result in real catastrophe, before anyone realizes anything is wrong.
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It's kind of ironic that my character is a doctor who acts very gay with his best friend. I don't see how gays could ever be doctors, they spend too much time whining about everything. Just get off your soapbox and go back to designing floral arrangements.
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It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former.
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I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
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The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.
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Everything I do is intended to make people laugh and think. I just think something is funny, it's not hurting anybody, not stabbing anybody, not shooting anybody, not making anybody watch me perform. There are thousands of comedians, don't come see me because it's not like I hide it.
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My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.
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I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.
