PAULY SHORE

When you put yourself out into the world and say, 'Hey, look at me,' you're going to get criticized.

Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me.

Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

I'm not used to getting good reviews.

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.

The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.

I really don't go out every night to red-carpet events.

The public was used to a Pauly Shore film coming out every year or two, you understand? So when that went away, the public lost familiarity with me.

We all have a past; it's just that my past is out there for all to see.

When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing.

I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.

Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.

It's in my blood to tour. It's in my blood to get on the road. It's in my blood to go onstage.

I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of memorizing their lines, and the whole process of starting to work with the other actors and the director, and doing rehearsals, and going to the location, and going through wardrobe.

I don't think any of us would be who we are if our parents weren't who they were. People that are in show business, and their parents are not in show business, their parents probably motivated them to get in show business.

I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.

I fly around with chicks on each arm and have no script. I just talk about what I feel like. But that's why my act works: I'm like this normal guy.