Paul Rudd (Paul Stephen Rudd) Quotes

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.

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• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Liked
  • Respected

• Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • May
  • War
  • Cold

• Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

  

  Usher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Training

• There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Learning
  • Football
  • Wise

• My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Me

• You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Run
  • Theory

• If you're in a Gay Mafia and you get whacked, is that good or bad? gay voice Say hello to my little friend.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Friend

• No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Society

• God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • Believe
  • America

• When I was little, I saw the play Les Misérables on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. So I went to my manager and told him I wanted to be in it. He asked me if I could sing, and I said no. I took one lesson and landed the role of Cosette in a national tour of the musical

  

  Ashley Tisdale
  • Amazing

• Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Evil

• It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Art
  • Words

• I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • People
  • Life
  • Heart

• I always wanted to have a headphone line but I feel like I'm going to do more than just headphones eventually, but we want to wake the world up right now with this.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Up
  • World

• I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

  

  Christopher Walken

• While I am fluent in Hindi, I was a little worried about my accent. So when I was approached for 'Karwaan,' I told them they need to first listen to me speak in Hindi, in case it sounds off.

  

  Dulquer Salmaan

• I want to emphasize that character in our leaders does matter.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • Character

• When we run out of them upstairs, I've been known to appropriate some from our greenroom, pocketing a few with one hand as I smile and greet our guests with the other. One time, Dave Zinczenko of 'Eat this, Not That!' fame, busted me in the act. The cookies apparently fall in the 'not that' category. I made a note of it.

  

  Lester Holt
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Fall

• There are many things that we still don't understand about the universe, right? Einstein struggled to bring quantum mechanics and gravity together and never succeeded, and that's a problem that to this day is not well understood. Well, maybe to comprehend some of these things, we need to augment our intelligence. If we do, who knows?

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Together
  • Universe
  • Understand

• I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Paul Rudd
  • Life
  • Humor
  • Deal