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    Paul Rudd

    Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process.

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    Paul Rudd

    At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

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    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 can, and do, walk the street. No one bothers me or anything, because most people wouldn't know who I am.

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    I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

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    I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.

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    I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.

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    I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

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    I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

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    I was at a dinner party with a group of people, and we were talking about fake names. You know, how its difficult to come up with a really great fake name. Its a very specific type of gift. You don't want to go too far into the silly, and you don't want to go too far into the banal. I always thought one of the funniest names ever was Gern Blanston, which came from a Steve Martin routine on one of his early records.

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    Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.

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    My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

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    My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

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    Sometimes you read a script and it's like, "You'll improv and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be," and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really.

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    Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

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    There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before, just hits every checkpoint." All of that takes a secondary status for me if I'm reading something and I just really like the characters.

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    There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.

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    There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

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    Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.

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    We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too.