PAUL RUDD

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

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

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

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

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.

It's insane but it's a great insane.

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.

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

I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

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

People do still mention 'Clueless' to me. I'm proud and happy that I was in it.

If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilarious.

While there are so many great things in my life, you get older, and you have responsibilities. And things happen, like my dad dying - things that are tough to shake off. And there are things I'm still trying to figure out.

I was always in new schools and had British parents, which was not the norm, and I think there was also... I'm not particularly religious, but I was born Jewish, and I always felt like the outsider because I wasn't Christian or Catholic.

I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with.

I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That's why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of 'Madden.'

For a while, I tried to masquerade as somewhat of a hippie because I was under the impression that was the kind of guy girls would like. I was pretty unsuccessful because I liked the idea of camping more than actually camping. I did go to a Grateful Dead concert, but I was pretty bored.

I used to ask my mom to try and shave my head on the sides to give me a receding hairline because Adam Ant had one.

There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.

I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk.

I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical.

What's weird is that anybody can write anything, and once it goes online, it's permanent. My very first biography on IMDb, which was written by a manager I had at the time, was not true.

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.

I find many of the people that I've worked with to be incredibly funny.