Paul Rudd (Paul Stephen Rudd) Quotes

Looking back, I'm really happy with the choices I've made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don't know. But just about every single thing I've ever done I've gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way.

Paul Rudd

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Matter

• When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Hope
  • Energy
  • Light

• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Nice
  • Makeup

• Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Singing
  • See

• The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Art
  • History
  • Words

• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Always
  • Serious
  • Data

• I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

  

  Barry McGee
  • School
  • Art
  • Kids

• The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Family
  • May
  • Humanity

• The particular way I'm going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won't be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Die

• I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

  

  Larry David
  • World
  • Running
  • Challenges

• Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.

  

  Larry David
  • Women
  • Crazy
  • Confidence

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Future
  • Always
  • Emotions

• To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Win
  • Motivational

• The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • People
  • Live
  • Walk

• I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Live
  • Playing
  • Consequences

• I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Shoes

• We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.

  

  James M. Barrie

• I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Believe
  • Percent
  • Voting

• The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

  

  Steven T. Katz
  • Jews
  • Murdering
  • West Bank

• The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Career
  • Australia
  • Series

• Looking back, I'm really happy with the choices I've made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don't know. But just about every single thing I've ever done I've gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way.

  

  Paul Rudd
  • Career
  • Choices
  • Intentions